For tens of thousands of years, humans have observed the minute seasonal changes that make or break a harvest. Now, for the first time, satellites have caught up. A study published this week in Nature ...

The annual clock of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn—is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows ...

The planet's seasons are not as immutable as previously thought. Turns out there are parts of the world that have different seasonal timing than those regions even just a short distance away. This ...

In a few specific and mysterious parts of the world, a short journey can be like traveling through time – and scientists aren't sure what's going on. The phenomenon is called seasonal asynchrony, and ...

After 2020, scientists noticed something unexpected to most of us – the Earth seemed to be spinning faster, a trend experts expect to continue for “decades” before the planet slows again. And now, a ...