Why can’t it always be summer ... The Earth’s axis is tilted due to a giant object – perhaps an ancient planet – smashing into it billions of years ago. And it’s this tilt that ...

It turns out that the elliptical orbit of the Earth has little effect on the seasons. Instead, it is the 23.45-degree tilt of ...

Australia has experienced its hottest summer on record, according to the nation's Bureau of Meteorology. Hundreds of individual heat records were shattered across the country over the past three ...

Early in the history of our solar system, something mysteriously knocked Earth slightly ... that's where a more extreme tilt starts to cause problems. Right now, during the summer in the Northern ...

In reality, the tilt of Earth has more influence on the seasons than does our planet's distance to the sun. "During the Northern Hemisphere summer, we're actually farthest from the sun ...