The solstice is not an all-day event, but it will be happening during the overnight hours at about 3:21 a.m. on Saturday. For people in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice marks the ...

The first meteorological day of summer is always the same, but the astronomical season starts on a different day each year. What to know in 2025 ...

It is thought that the winter solstice was actually more important to the people who constructed Stonehenge, sometime between 3000 and 2000 BC, than the summer solstice. As a result, scores of ...

Today, hundreds of people - including Druids - still travel to Stonehenge to celebrate the sunrise on the summer solstice, and the sunset on the winter solstice, and to take part in the same kind ...

In some traditions, people dive into the ocean at midnight ... In El Salvador, the tradition is considered part of the "winter" solstice since it falls in the southern hemisphere.

Students are almost out of school for the summer, but when does summer "officially" start? Here's what you need to know.

"The Winter Solstice is as significant as the Spring Festival." As early as Zhou Dynasty (c.11th century-256BC), people worshipped the gods on the first day of the Winter Solstice, which was also the ...

The winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere is also ... During the celebration, for just that one day every year, enslaved people were allowed to join in the feasts and games as equals with ...

The Incas of South America celebrated the corresponding winter solstice with a ceremony called Inti Raymi, which included food offerings and sacrifices of animals, and maybe even people.