The winter solstice is explained in Finnish mythology as the day the witch goddess of the north, Louhi, kidnapped the sun and the moon and held them captive inside of a mountain, causing the long ...

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.

The winter solstice came on Monday at 5:02 a.m. ET. The shortest day of the year heralds the arrival of winter; after this, days finally start getting longer in the northern hemisphere ...

around June 21 (commonly known as "Summer Solstice" for being the first day of summer and the longest day of the year) and December 21 (commonly known as "Winter Solstice" for being the first day ...

Now that the winter solstice has passed, the Colorado continues to gain precious minutes of sunlight each day until the summer solstice on Friday, June 20. The 5:30 p.m. sunset on Monday ...