As the Northern Hemisphere welcomes spring today, the Southern Hemisphere is marked with the first day of autumn.

The difference between an equinox and a solstice is based on Earth’s tilt, affecting daylight length and the changing of ...

Beginning Dec. 14, 4:20 p.m. sunsets come back in the picture, with the sun setting 4:22 p.m. on the Winter Solstice, and ...

The winter solstice is the day each year that has the shortest period of daylight between sunrise and sunset, and therefore the longest night. It happens when the sun is directly above the Tropic ...

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.

The winter solstice came on Monday at 5:02 a.m. ET ... the degree to which the planet is tilted relative to the sun. The axis around which the Earth spins isn't straight up and down — it's ...

When the North Pole is tilted towards the sun, it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere. In December, the winter solstice marks the exact moment the Northern Hemisphere is tilted the furthest away ...

It, therefore, recognized 21 June as the International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice. A solstice — derived from the Latin sol ("sun") and ... (commonly known as "Winter Solstice ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, the December solstice is the year’s day of least sunlight, when the sun takes its lowest ... they’ve heard about the winter solstice. Their answers highlight ...

Along the same lines, the latest sunrise time of the year is not on the first day of winter. That actually doesn’t happen until around Jan. 6 to Jan. 9 when the sun does not rise until 7:32 a.m ...

So what is a solstice ... the sun, when viewed from the Sphinx, sets precisely between two of the pyramids on the summer solstice. The Incas of South America celebrated the corresponding winter ...