The summer solstice marks the official start of summer. It brings the longest day and shortest night of the year for the 88 percent of Earth's people who live in the Northern Hemisphere.

Police and security staff watched on as crowds celebrated during the summer solstice at Stonehenge The ... Here's how this year's event passed in pictures: Our weekly round-up showing what's ...

with the arrival of the summer solstice. So what is a solstice, exactly? It's the result of Earth's north-south axis being tilted 23.4 degrees toward the sun. This tilt causes different amounts of ...

(princessdlaf/Getty Images) Globes are nearly always tilted ... For example, the 2021 northern summer solstice occurred on June 20 at 11:32 p.m. EDT, then it was 5:13 a.m. EDT on June 21 in ...

The summer solstice is almost here. The highly-anticipated event will take place at 10:58 a.m. ET on Wednesday 21st of June. For people who live in the northern hemisphere, it will be the longest ...

Get somewhere rural and look southeast after dark! Tuesday, June 21, 2022: Summer Solstice, five naked-eye planets and a Last Quarter Moon Today it’s the June solstice—summer solstice in the ...

Photographers have taken photos of the annular eclipse - also ... This eclipse coincided with the summer solstice - the northern hemisphere's longest day of the year. Annular eclipses occur ...

From then onwards the days become increasingly long leading up to the Summer Solstice, or the June Solstice, and the longest day of the year. During the day, the Northern Hemisphere will have ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

For northern hemisphere dwellers, the 2024 summer solstice occurs on Thursday 20 June at 21:51 BST (20:51 GMT). This is the moment at which the sun will be at its highest position in the sky ...