The Latest Breaking News from Northern Hemisphere

The winter solstice on 21 December 2025 marks the shortest day and longest night in the Northern Hemisphere. It also signals the start of astronomical winter, occurring when Earth's north pole is tilted furthest away from the Sun, resulting in the least daylight of the year.

On Monday, Sept. 22, day and night will be nearly equal in length as Earth's axis is side-on to the sun, officially beginning autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.

Spring gets its official start Thursday in the Northern Hemisphere with the arrival of the vernal equinox

It’s time to ring in the Martian New Year with a variety of strange sights on the planet’s Northern Hemisphere.

As the Atlantic grew wider, the ancestral population of all of today's oaks may have been straddling the continents of the Northern Hemisphere. If so, the ancestor of the oaks we know today was a widespread population that was cleaved in half as North America inched westward.

The winter solstice is Saturday, bringing the shortest day and longest night of the year to the Northern Hemisphere

The 20-minute red card has proved popular in Super Rugby and the Rugby Championship and will now be trialled in the Six Nations for the first time

Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS proved to be photogenic as it lit up the early autumn skies of the Northern Hemisphere this month.

Summer 2024 was officially the Northern Hemisphere’s hottest on record. In the United States, fierce heat waves seemed to hit somewhere almost every day.