The winter solstice also marks the first official day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's what to know this year.

This year’s Winter Solstice will occur on Dec. 21. Many ancient sites, like Newgrange in Ireland, pictured, were built to be aligned with and track the Winter Solstice. Photo by Bethany O’Hagan The ...

Earth reaches its closest point to the sun in its 2026 orbit on Jan. 3. The sun will appear larger in the sky than on any ...

The shortest day of the year is almost here. Nights are growing colder and darker in California as the winter solstice approaches. The sun now sets before 5 p.m. and doesn’t rise until 14 hours later, ...

The winter solstice also marks the first official day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's what to know this year.

A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism ...

As the year gets underway, something important happens quietly in space while life on Earth carries on as usual. Our planet ...

The winter solstice, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year, happens just after 3pm on Sunday.

An estimated 8,500 people gathered at Stonehenge in Wiltshire to celebrate the winter solstice on Sunday (December 21st) and ...

While the solstice marks the shortest day of the year, the amount of daylight we gain in the first week afterward is surprisingly tiny — often just a few seconds per day. From Dec. 21, the shortest ...

Each turn of the year carries its own rhythm, magic, and invitation to live in deeper harmony with the natural world. The ...

In the frozen tundra of Minnesota, we are experiencing a colder, more snow-filled winter than recent years. The deep darkness and cold affect our moods, movements and motivations. By the ...