Winter is coming! Here's when it starts, when the winter solstice will arrive and what you should expect for winter weather ...

But there are actually two measures of the seasons: “the astronomical seasons” (which follow the arrivals of equinoxes and ...

Here's when winter officially starts, when and what the winter solstice is, when we fall back and what to know about the ...

The Martian new year arrives with the Red Planet’s vernal equinox. Explaining why requires a deep dive into celestial ...

The seasons have their names for a reason; they describe the weather common for that time of year. Here's why the coldest ...

We can be grateful for the relatively short seasons on our planet. As with equinoxes, solstices are associated with Earth's tilt, but instead of daylight and nighttime being even, the days and ...

Halloween marks the halfway point between the Autumnal Equinox and the Winter Solstice, making it a cross-quarter day.

But for many modern cultures—and Americans in particular—the solstices and equinoxes are no longer as important. Most people who "really pay attention to what's going on outside on a regular ...

It’s an occasion—along with September’s equinox and the solstices in June and December—that’s been marked by humans for thousands of years. How did ancient people know when the equinoxes ...

What is a solstice? Here's the short answer There are two equinoxes and two solstices each year. Equinoxes occur during the fall and spring and are called the autumnal and vernal equinoxes.

“the astronomical seasons” (which follow the arrivals of equinoxes and solstices) and what’s called the “meteorological seasons.” Allison Chinchar, CNN meteorologist, explains the ...