FOR the past six months, the days have been getting shorter and the nights longer, but that is about to reverse soon. Sunday, ...

December's winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year. Here's the science behind Earth's tilt, fading daylight, and ...

December 21 marks the Winter Solstice 2025, when the Northern Hemisphere experiences the shortest day and longest night. Here ...

The December Solstice marks the beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere as the Sun takes its shortest trip across the ...

For many students, the Winter Solstice might show up as a line in a geography chapter, a short note in an astronomy lesson, ...

Opinion: just as it was for our ancestors, the winter solstice is a time for rituals and reflections ...

Dozens of mysterious structures across the Northern Hemisphere – some nearly 5,000 years old – align precisely to frame the rising and setting Sun on midwinter's shortest day.

Our Christmas traditions originate in midwinter celebrations tens of thousands of years old. Let’s reach back and remember Gillian Monks is the author of Merry Midwinter Midwinter celebration is our ...

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

About 13,000 people watched the sunrise at Stonehenge on Wednesday morning, on the longest day of the year. The sun rose at the historic monument in Wiltshire at 04:52 BST. English Heritage opens the ...

Each year, around June 21st, the Northern Hemisphere experiences the Summer Solstice - the longest day and the shortest night of the year. For centuries, cultures worldwide have marked this celestial ...