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

The phenomenon occurs when half of Earth is tilted as far from the sun as possible.The first signs of winter have already ...

A solstice — derived from the Latin sol ("sun") and sistere ("to stand still"), because the seasonal movement of the Sun's daily path (as seen ... (commonly known as "Summer Solstice" for ...

The summer solstice is considered the first day of ... "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 ...

The Martian new year arrives with the Red Planet’s vernal equinox. Explaining why requires a deep dive into celestial ...

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 ...

Thanks to the tilt of the Earth, the nights of the Scandinavian summer are lit by the golden light from the midnight sun. Depending ... in Sweden during the summer solstice, try and get an invite ...

David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. Every year around the summer solstice, Swedes gather to celebrate Midsummer, a festival marking the longest day of the year.

Here's when winter officially starts, when and what the winter solstice is, when we fall back and what to know about the ...