Spring officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere on March 20 with the vernal equinox as the entire world experiences an ...

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 ...

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 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.

During the Northern Hemisphere’s summer solstice, the upper half of the earth is tilted in toward the sun, creating the longest day and shortest night of the year. This solstice falls between ...

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

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.

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 ...