Old Man Winter is still pounding on the Northeast this week. Here's when winter will end, when spring begins and when Daylight Saving Time 2025 starts ...

along with how we mark the solstice on our calendars. Quirks in the Gregorian calendar mean the solstice will make another ...

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on ...

The New York Times has offered a public calendar since 2017 that readers ... Robert Simmon/NASA Earth Observatory Dec. 21: The winter solstice It’s the scientific start to winter in the Northern ...

But because the Earth’s rotation doesn’t perfectly align with our 24-hour calendar — this was a Leap Year, after all — the solstice changes by about six hours every year. Adding a day to ...

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.

An incredible view of the winter solstice is seen from a brand-new satellite. The US government's scientific weather forecasting agency NOAA captured the scene on Saturday (Dec. 21) from the GOES ...

Groundhog Day predictions about the coming of spring put the spotlight on Punxsutawney Phil every Feb. 2, but celebrating the ...

But the exact moment of the summer 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.