Sunday is the shortest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical winter.

Winter starts Sunday with the solstice. Why is it the shortest day, longest night? What to know in Mississippi ...

Today marks the shortest day and longest night of the year as the sun reaches its lowest point in the Northern Hemisphere sky ...

As we draw closer to Christmas and winter sets in, the days become shorter and darker, with the winter solstice marking the shortest day of the year. But when exactly is the shortest day of the year, ...

The winter solstice marks the shortest day and longest night of the year as well as the start of the Pagan holiday, Yule, ...

When daylight saving time ends and the clocks "fall back" each fall, it feels like the amount of daylight is getting shorter and shorter. This is true. While adjusting our clocks back an hour in ...

The December Solstice marks the beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere as the Sun takes its shortest trip across the ...

They say you can’t teach height. If you could, Muggsy Bogues probably would have taken a lesson or two. Without the benefits of a vertical education, the 5-foot-3 point guard still managed to last ...

A new technique breaks Dijkstra's 70-year-old record: it finds routes faster in huge networks, changing graph theory forever.

Deuce Vaughn is the NFL's new short king. The Cowboys' rookie running back lit up the preseason in his first taste of NFL action against the Jaguars in Week 1. Vaughn took eight carries during the ...

Names are meant to describe and distinguish one thing from another. Whether that’s a sign of creativity or simplicity, names have captivated people from their beginnings. So when settlers came to the ...

ICFO researchers have set a new record by generating the shortest soft X-ray pulse to date –just 19.2 attoseconds long. This ...