Opinion: The Cónacht Fómhair provided our ancestors with a pause between autumn and winter ...

We asked a few of our Native friends to share traditions they’ve heard about the winter solstice. Their answers highlight winter as a time for storytelling. Dennis Zotigh "The Snow Snake Game ...

The official first day of fall, otherwise known as the autumnal equinox, is this weekend in the Northern Hemisphere.

Fall is approaching, even though the high temperatures don’t always make it feel like the new season is here. Still, the ...

The winter solstice is the longest night of the year. It's the time when the planet is tilted furthest away from the sun, but also marks the time when the days start getting longer. For millennia ...

(The opposite holds true for the Southern Hemisphere, where June brings the winter solstice and the shortest day of the year.) Read on for some more intriguing facts about the summer solstice.

Solstice' comes from the word solstitium, which means "Sun stoppage" in Latin. Each time the Sun crosses from horizon to horizon between the winter solstice ... Getty Images) Globes are nearly ...

Culture is the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, and it encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles ...

Manuel Arias Duran/Moment/Getty Images Libra season begins on Sept ... As the midpoint between the summer and winter solstice, the autumn equinox kicks off the journey into the darker half ...

Days will shorten until the winter solstice on Dec. 21, which is the shortest day of the year north of the equator. There will only be fewer than eight and a half hours of daylight that day ...

The days are gradually getting shorter as fall and winter approach. The winter solstice, which will take place on Dec. 21 in 2024, has the shortest period of daylight in 2024, totaling 9 hours and ...