When is the winter solstice? At sunrise this morning, about 15,000 people gathered at Stonehenge — the world’s most famous neolithic monument — to mark the arrival of astronomical winter in ...

The 2024 winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, happens on Saturday, Dec. 21, and is marked with traditions and ...

Chris Smith, 31, who had come to Stonehenge for the winter solstice for the first time, said he was there because of the 'spiritual draw of the area'. He said: 'This is all about renewal ...

Thousands of people greeted the dawn with cheers and applause at Stonehenge as they marked the winter solstice. Those who ...

As the first rays of sunlight pierced through the frosty morning sky, thousands of people gathered at the iconic Stonehenge monument to mark the winter solstice—a tradition that links humanity ...

Special access is allowed to the ancient Stonehenge monument during the solstice The winter solstice sunrise was greeted by ...

The winter solstice is Saturday, bringing the shortest day and longest night of the year to the Northern Hemisphere.

Humans have been celebrating the winter solstice for thousands of years. Ancient civilizations built landmarks like Stonehenge in England and Torreon at Machu Picchu, Peru, to track the sun's ...

No one could see the sun through the low winter ... until the summer solstice in June. The solstices are the only occasions when visitors can go right up to the stones at Stonehenge, and thousands ...

Special access is allowed to the ancient Stonehenge monument during the solstice [PA Media] The winter solstice sunrise was greeted by thousands of people at Stonehenge, with a focus on "renewal ...