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

FOR the past six months, the days have been getting shorter and the nights longer, but that is about to reverse soon. Sunday, December 21, marks the shortest day of 2025 — also known as the Winter ...

Sunday is the shortest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical winter. Here’s what to know.

Greece was the country that held the title for having the shortest flight in the world up until a few years ago. The flight between the islands of Kasos and Karpathos in the Dodecanese is ...

While the shortest day of the year is on December 21 in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the longest day ...

For many students, the Winter Solstice might show up as a line in a geography chapter, a short note in an astronomy lesson, or a question asked in pas.

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

The thing about records is that they're meant to be broken. From the "longest human tunnel traveled through by a skateboarding dog" to the "largest living cat," Guinness World Records has been ...

The NBA is increasingly defined by the giants who call the league home. From Giannis Antetokounmpo and Kevin Durant to Victor Wembanyama, it seems as if there's some multifaceted willow waiting in 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 ...

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 is the fastest flash of light, faster than the atomic unit of time (24.2 ...