Sunset. Shutterstock/Delcroix Romain March 18, 2021 Day and night aren’t equal length on an equinox – here’s why Osnat Katz, UCL On the March equinox, everywhere in the world has more sunlight than darkness.
shutterstock. February 28, 2020 How a seasonal snarl-up in the mid-1500s gave us our strange rules for leap years Jonti Horner, University of Southern Queensland Leap years were devised in Julius Caesar’s time, to fix the pesky problem that Earth’s year isn’t exactly 365 days. But 15 centuries later, our calendars were still slightly askew.
As the Earth orbits the Sun, the Sun appears to move through the ancient constellations of the zodiac. Tauʻolunga/Wikimedia Commons January 24, 2020 Why your zodiac sign is probably wrong James B. Kaler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Astronomy and astrology do not agree on the dates of the zodiac constellations.