On the day of the summer solstice, its climb stops, as it reaches its highest point in the sky for the year. After that, with each successive passage of the Sun through the sky, its path is a bit ...

The sun will set earlier each day into December, culminating in the shortest day of the year, or the winter solstice. The winter solstice marks the first day of winter, ushering in the colder ...

So what is a solstice, exactly? It's the result of Earth's north-south axis being tilted 23.4 degrees toward the sun. This tilt causes different amounts of sunlight to reach different regions of ...

This year the December solstice is reached at exactly 16:28 GMT and 11:28 Eastern time on Thursday, and 00:28 China Standard Time early on Friday. That's when the sun reaches its most southerly ...

The UK's coldest season is about to begin - but when exactly does it start? Tomasz Schafernaker explains why there is more ...

The exact moment of the winter solstice varies from year to year due to a slight misalignment between the Gregorian calendar and the actual rate of the Earth’s rotation around the sun.

What is winter solstice? The first day of winter is marked by the winter solstice, which occurs when the Earth’s axis tilts ...

The solstice typically falls on either Dec. 21 or Dec. 22 in the Northern Hemisphere and marks the "shortest day" of the year ...

"The Winter Solstice, or the December Solstice, is the point at which the path of the sun in the sky is farthest south," according to Space.com. "At the Winter Solstice, the sun travels the ...

The sun rose at the historic monument in Wiltshire at 04:52 BST. English Heritage opens the site up every year for the solstice, giving people a rare chance to get up close to the monument.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the December solstice is the year’s day of least sunlight, when the sun takes its lowest, shortest path across the sky. North of the Arctic Circle, it is the midpoint ...

The summer solstice marks the longest day of the year ... Equinoxes occur halfway between the solstices, when the sun’s path ...