More than 100 visitors gathered to witness how ancestral Pueblo people tracked seasons through sunlight alignments at this ...

Winter solstice 2025 is here —find out why it’s important for the season and when we can look forward to spring.

The combination of the elliptical orbit, affecting the speed of the planet, and the axial tilt, causing the length of daylight to change unevenly, is the key. The orbital effects lag behind the tilt’s ...

At 10:03 a.m. Sunday morning, the sun was directly over the Tropic of Capricorn at 23.5° south latitude, marking the December solstice, and the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Other ...

Thousands of people cheered and danced around Stonehenge as the sun rose over the prehistoric stone circle on Sunday, the winter solstice. The crowds, many dressed as druids and pagans, had gathered ...

Sunday marks the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, signaling the start of astronomical winter.

Astronomical winter began on Sunday, Dec. 21, which is also the winter solstice. The winter solstice varies by year, between Dec. 20 and Dec. 23. It marks the shortest day and longest night in the ...

LONDON – Thousands of people cheered and danced around Stonehenge as the sun rose over the prehistoric stone circle on Sunday, the winter solstice. The crowds, many dressed as druids and pagans, had ...

Today is one of several with the least amount of daylight, but don’t despair, because the days will begin to get longer again on Monday. The moment of the winter solstice is 9:03 a.m. CST Sunday. That ...

Cold temperatures and wintry weather hit Western North Carolina hard earlier in December, but as we start the first day of winter, we have thawed a bit. The winter solstice signifies the beginning of ...

Thousands of people have gathered at Stonehenge to celebrate the winter solstice LONDON -- Thousands of people cheered and danced around Stonehenge as the sun rose over the prehistoric stone circle on ...

Today marks the shortest day and longest night of the year as the sun reaches its lowest point in the Northern Hemisphere sky. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...