Summer officially began Friday in the Northern Hemisphere with the longest daylight of the year at around 15 hours.

In the high glare of a summer evening in Fairbanks, Alaska, Ciara Santiago watched the mercury climb. A meteorologist at the National Weather Service office, she had the dubious honor of issuing the ...

Do you yearn for long days and short nights? Then this could be the best day of the year for you and your fellow sunlight seekers.

Humans have been celebrating these events for millennia and on modern-day solstice days, ancient and new traditions mix ...