The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is set to begin on February 18 or 19, depending on the sighting of the crescent moon. During the month, which lasts 29 or 30 days, Muslims observing the fast will ...

We won’t see a ring of fire around the moon, and the sky won’t darken. But the astrological impacts of this week’s solar eclipse are believed to be incredibly potent.

The spotlight returned to Gobbler’s Knob in western Pennsylvania, when handlers of a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil said he predicted six more weeks of winter — not an early spring — after he saw ...

Groundhog Day falls on Feb. 2, the midpoint between the shortest, darkest day of the year on the winter solstice and the spring equinox. It’s a time of year that also figures in the Celtic calendar ...

The spotlight returns to Gobbler’s Knob in western Pennsylvania every Feb. 2, when handlers of a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil announce whether there will be six more weeks of winter or an ...

Groundhog Day annually celebrates Punxsutawney Phil, a groundhog with proposed weather forecasting abilities. Here's when he will make his seasonal prediction.

It was the evening after the winter solstice at Aztec Ruins National Monument in northwest New Mexico, near the town of Aztec. Although we were a day late per the solar calendar, the park service ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - The Winter Solstice is the shortest day and the longest night of the year, and it officially marks the start of winter. “The winter solstice is not so much a full day as ...

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people cheered and danced around Stonehenge as the sun rose over the prehistoric stone circle on Sunday, the winter solstice. The crowds, many dressed as druids and pagans, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich (WOOD) — The winter solstice happens once a year when the Earth’s axis is tilted furthest from the sun in the northern or southern hemisphere. Here in North America, our winter ...

Sunday, Dec. 21 is the winter solstice, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year. Long before modern science explained the phenomenon, ancient cultures recognized the solstice as a ...