Anyone driving toward the sun during their commute knows this time of year is particularly difficult, with the glare from the sun coming straight into your eyes. In the early fall, around the equinox, ...

Day and night will get equal time for a brief moment Monday as much of the world heads into fall. The autumnal equinox arrives Monday, marking the start of the fall season for the Northern Hemisphere ...

Daylight will soon start disappearing remarkably fast. With the winding down of summer comes that familiar shortening of daylight hours until we reach the autumn equinox, one of two points in our ...

WASHINGTON — While the temperatures may not reflect it just yet everywhere, fall is officially upon us. The autumnal equinox, which comes around every September for the Northern Hemisphere, marks the ...

As the earth spins on its axis, producing night and day, it also moves about the sun in an elliptical (elongated circle) orbit that requires about 365 1/4 days to complete. The earth's spin axis is ...

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy caught the precise moment when our star literally aligned with a falling skydiver, resulting in an "absolutely preposterous (but real) view" of a human silhouetted ...