Summer solstice

While Thursday marks the longest day of the year in Northern Hemisphere, it will not necessarily be the hottest.

The summer solstice, also known as the June solstice arrives June 20 at 4:51 p.m. EDT (2051 GMT), marking the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere.

The time of the annual summer solstice will be the earliest it's been for centuries and will continue to creep forward every leap year until 2100. But why?

When the Earth's poles tilt towards the sun, the solstice begins, bringing with it the longest day of the year. Midsummer has been celebrated around the world ...

This year, the event will be the earliest in more than 200 years. And, the historic moment will also be followed by another big sight in the sky. Local.

Don't miss the Full Moon Jam at Foster Beach on Thursday night. From 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., enjoy fire art and music with dangers and musicians. Organizers said the ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jackie Faherty, an astronomer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, about why summer solstice came so ...

The Earth spins on a tilt as it revolves around the sun. The summer solstice occurs for Earth's upper half when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted most closely ...

The astronomical summer officially began Thursday afternoon, marking the earliest solstice since 1796, the National Weather Service said.

Celebrate the longest day of the year and start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere with safe solar viewing at the Jack C Davis Observatory on Thursday, ...

Thousands of people have greeted the sun with cheers as it rose over Stonehenge for the summer solstice, days after the ancient monument was sprayed with ...

Every year, thousands of people flock to Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument in southern England, to celebrate the summer solstice.

It is one of the rare occasions people can get close to the stones at the historic site near Salisbury in Wiltshire. It went ahead as normal after Just Stop Oil ...

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The summer solstice is not the hottest day of the year. It takes time for the Earth to heat up every summer. So the hottest temperatures lag behind the longest ...

Spectators gathered at the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, at dusk on Thursday to mark the summer solstice.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jackie Faherty, an astronomer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, about why summer solstice came so ...

Around the world, people celebrated the June 20 solstice in a variety of ways as Earth's north pole reached its greatest tilt towards the sun.

Around 15000 people gathered at Stonehenge to watch the sun rise for the summer solstice, just days after protesters vandalized the historic monument.