Each day, the sun traces a path across the sky, rising in the east and setting in the west. As the winter solstice approaches and the number of hours of sunlight in a day decreases, the sun's path ...

Read Illustration showing how Earth's tilt leads to the Northern and Southern Hemispheres receiving changing amounts of ...

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 ...

So what is a solstice, exactly? It's the result of Earth's north-south axis being tilted 23.4 degrees toward the sun. This tilt causes different amounts of sunlight to reach different regions of ...

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 from Earth) appears to "stand still" at a northern ...

Two things drive this all-important seasonal shuffle: Earth's tilted axis and the planet's orbit around the sun. How the summer solstice works The summer solstice is the point when the sun will ...

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 ...

A six-kilometer-long Chaco Culture road lines up, Stonehenge-like, with the winter solstice. Other roads end at shrines in the middle of a desert.

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 ...

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.

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.