It's cold and dark during winter. No wonder our days feel so short. Once the clocks go back in October, our days have less and less sunlight until we reach the winter solstice. What is it?

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 winter solstice falls on December 21 in the Northern Hemisphere, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year. It also marks the official start of winter. For many folks, it's a ...

FLORIDA — Winter weather isn’t bound by the calendar, but by what’s going on outside. Meteorologists consider Dec. 1 the start of winter. But the “official” start of the season in ...

As instruments play, they jump. If they land on their feet, this will please the sun god, who will begin to return. The most dangerous of the solstice rituals has to be polo voladore in Guatemala.