Winter Solstice brings shortest day & longest night! Learn why, the science behind it, & its cultural significance. Click to discover the turning point!

Long before modern science explained the phenomenon, ancient cultures recognized the solstice as a moment of renewal.

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

Winter Solstice 2025 marks the shortest day and longest night of the year. Know its scientific reason, cultural meaning, spiritual significance, and more.

Visitors to the Sunwheel can see the sun rising and setting over the winter solstice stones from approximately Dec. 16 ...

The winter solstice happens once a year when the Earth's axis is tilted furthest from the sun in the northern or southern hemisphere.

Since it has the fewest hours of sunlight compared to the rest of the year, the Winter Solstice is considered the “shortest ...

The summer solstice heralds the start of astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere and marks the day with the most daylight for the year. But what's the science behind the longest day and ...

The shortest day of the year is the winter solstice for your hemisphere: around 21 December in the Northern Hemisphere and around 21 June in the Southern Hemisphere. On that day, you get the fewest ...

Summer and winter solstice with hours of daylight and darkness in comparison. Isolated vector illustration on black background. (CNN) — Do you yearn for long days and short nights? Then this could be ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DALLAS (AP) — It’s time for the start of ...

This year, the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice occurs on June 20 at 10:42 p.m. EST. South of the Equator, this same moment marks the beginning of winter. Solstices occur at the same time around ...