We’re rapidly gaining daylength in Colorado... and we’ll get plenty of it with high pressure in place this week. With that gain, we’re also seeing jumps in our peak UV index, which is now peaking ...

The longest day of the year soon approaches, and something about that just makes people around the world want to celebrate. Between its reliable astronomical pattern and its life-giving, mega dose of ...

The 2025 summer solstice takes place on June 20, heralding the onset of astronomical summer and the longest day of the year. Sunlovers rejoice, for the summer solstice is upon us, bringing the longest ...

On April 8, a total solar eclipse will be visible in 15 U.S. states that sit along the path of totality. But how does the path of totality work, and where's the best viewing spot? Here's everything ...

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 ...

I’d wager a guess that we are, as a species, rather fond of our home planet (our wanton carbon emissions notwithstanding). But the ugly truth is that the Earth is doomed. Someday, the Sun will enter a ...

This new moon of March 2025 will create a partial solar eclipse visible in the northeastern part of North America, much of Europe and Russia; one will even be able to see the moon cover a sliver of ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

Twice a year, the sun doesn’t play favorites. Everyone on Earth is seemingly on equal status – at least when it comes to the amount of light and dark that they get. On Monday, we enter our second and ...