Themes: The summer and winter solstices; the seasons and the Earth’s orbit around the sun; celebrations of the solstices around the world, including at Stonehenge; the beauty of the natural world.

These days are the northern and southern winter solstices, respectively, explained Christopher Baird, an associate professor of physics at West Texas A&M University. The more Earth's surface is ...

The darkest time of the year is the winter solstice, the day with the least sunlight and the longest night. However, the ...

Mindful that the solstices and equinoxes symbolize the fertility of the land, agricultural and food production systems, cultural heritage and their millenary traditions; the General Assembly of ...

This tilt gives us our seasons and, twice a year, our solstices. Yes, although obviously the particular time will vary depending on where you are in the world. This year the December solstice is ...

The winter solstice came on Monday at 5:02 a.m. ET. The shortest day of the year heralds the arrival of winter; after this, days finally start getting longer in the northern hemisphere, which ...

The Nebra disc measures about 30cm in diameter and has a blue-green patina emblazoned with gold symbols representing the Sun, Moon, stars, solstices and other cosmic phenomena. According to Unesco ...