The winter solstice officially in the Northern Hemisphere begins Sunday, December 21 at 10:03 am - EST.  It’s the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the longest day of the year and ...

The shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest day in the Southern Hemisphere has been marked around the world.

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 ...

English Heritage, the organization that manages Stonehenge, said some 8,500 people celebrated Saturday at the monument on ...

Winter solstice 2025 is just days away. What to know about the longest night, shortest day of the year. When will days start getting longer in Mississippi?

The world has been noisy. Loud opinions. Sharp divisions. A constant stream of things said too quickly and felt too deeply. The bluster of the year demanded reactions when what most people needed was ...

While the solstice marks the shortest day of the year, the amount of daylight we gain in the first week afterward is ...

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 ...

Sunday marks the shortest day of the year and the first day of astronomical winter. Look out for "winter vomiting disease" this holiday season.

The celebration of the Winter Solstice is an ancient practice that is almost untraceable. While we know civilizations like ancient Egypt and Rome had annual traditions tied to it, sites like Newgrange ...

Northeast Ohio gardeners can take comfort in the hidden activity of winter. What looks like a lifeless landscape is, in reality, a system in careful pause.