This story was updated to add new information. Spring has sprung, bringing warmer days and blooming flowers. Thursday is the first day of spring, or the vernal equinox, in the Northern Hemisphere.

Earth’s orbit around the Sun isn’t a perfect circle—it’s slightly elliptical. Each year, around July 2 or 3, Earth reaches its farthest point from the Sun, known as aphelion. Around January 2 or 3, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Thought it still feels a bit like winter outside, you may have noticed the sun is rising a bit earlier in the morning these days. Well, that’s about to change. When Daylight ...