The winter solstice can fall on any day between Dec. 20 and 23, depending on the year, but the 21st and 22nd are the most ...

On Sunday, Dec. 21, at exactly 10:03 a.m. EST, the Northern Hemisphere's astronomical winter officially begins with the ...

Today marks the shortest day and longest night of the year as the sun reaches its lowest point in the Northern Hemisphere sky ...

The winter solstice falls on Dec. 21 in the Northern Hemisphere, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year. It ...

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

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

The moment of the winter solstice is 9:03 a.m. CST Sunday. That marks the moment the Northern Hemisphere reached its maximum ...

LONDON -- Thousands of people cheered and danced around Stonehenge as the sun rose over the prehistoric stone circle on ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Sunday, December 21, is the winter solstice. In the Northern Hemisphere, that means it’s the shortest ...

The combination of the elliptical orbit, affecting the speed of the planet, and the axial tilt, causing the length of ...

The Winter Solstice is the shortest day and the longest night of the year, and it officially marks the start of winter.

The winter solstice has been celebrated for thousands of years, most notably at Newgrange, but also at Slieve Gullion in ...