Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The Northern Hemisphere’s shortest day and longest night of ...

As the nights grow longer and temperatures continue to drop, the 2025 winter solstice is just around the corner. The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year, bringing the least amount of ...

As the rain continues to rain, and the hour when the sky goes from a dreary lightish gray to darker gray to black gets earlier and earlier, you may find yourself wondering: Will this ever end? That ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — We are about a week and a half away from winter solstice, which brings the shortest day of the year. You may be shocked to learn, though, that our earliest sunset time does ...

The winter solstice is arriving soon. "The winter solstice is significant across various cultures, signaling the changing of the seasons," according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. After the winter ...

The shortest day of the year is not something to celebrate, you might think. Something to get through, like a layoff or a cold, in hopes of better — or at least longer — days to come. But the ancients ...

When is winter? Weather forecasters in the Northern Hemisphere will tell you Dec. 1 through the end of February, which is known as meteorological winter. But based on Earth's tilt and orbit around the ...

This year's Winter Solstice night is the darkest in over a decade. Astronomical winter soon arrives, but exactly when is our shortest day and longest night of the year? During Earth's yearly trek ...

We still have plenty of long, dark days ahead of us, but there’s a bright spot amid a sea of early sunsets We’re quickly approaching the shortest days of the year across Canada as the winter solstice ...

Astronomical winter soon arrives, but exactly when is our shortest day and longest night of the year? During Earth's yearly trek around the inner solar system, the tilt of the planet's axis causes our ...

The biggest stories of the day delivered to your inbox.