The 2024 winter solstice is here, bringing the darkest days of the year. Here's what to know about daylight savings time.

January 2025 will be an excellent opportunity to spot Mars and some of its details with a medium-sized telescope!

The part of the Earth facing away from the Sun is in darkness and has night time. So when it is day time we are facing towards the Sun but as the Earth spins and we turn away from the Sun ...

will make its closest approach of Earth on Saturday. Sky-gazers won’t want to miss the event since it may be the last time ...

Let’s put a marker on Scotland. When this part of the Earth is facing the Sun it’s day time, when it’s facing away from the Sun that's night time. One spin of the Earth is how we measure one ...

Night on Earth reveals the startling activity of the natural world hiding behind the dark curtain of night. From the producer of Plant Earth II, this six-part Netflix series follows nocturnal animals ...

That was because it took 1.3 seconds for the question to travel to the Moon, and another 1.3 seconds for the answer to get back to Earth. Those 2.6 seconds were exactly the round-trip travel time ...

Four astronauts have returned to Earth from the International Space Station, in what was Nasa's first night-time landing in 53 years. The crew - three Nasa astronauts and one from Japan's space ...

An asteroid streaked past northern Siberia in the middle of the night Tuesday before burning up in Earth’s atmosphere ... tundra around 4:15 a.m. local time, the European Space Agency wrote ...

By an earth day we mean the length of time earth is exposed to the sun. By night we mean the duration for which the earth does not receive the sunlight. Since the earth takes 24 hours to go ...