English Heritage, the organization that manages Stonehenge, said some 8,500 people celebrated Saturday at the monument on Salisbury Plain, about 75 miles southwest of London. It added that its ...

After Orkney was ruled out as the origin for Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, geologists now have their eyes on north eastern ...

After the winter solstice the Sun begins to move north again relative to the equator until eventually - six months later - it reaches it most northerly point, overhead the Tropic of Cancer, and gives ...

In the darkness of the shortest day of 2025, thousands of pilgrims converged in lamplight upon Stonehenge, one of Britain’s ...

For Moon Cat, a very outgoing Black Cat, those royal genes were on full display at the Winter Solstice celebration at ...

Stonehenge may have been built with the assistance of cows who helped carry the enormous rocks across the British Isles. It could help explain how the fabled bluestones managed to complete the journey ...

After centuries of puzzling over the meaning of Stonehenge, laser-equipped researchers have concluded that the prehistoric monument was built to show off the solstices. Apart from revealing 71 new ...

STONEHENGE, England — The dramatic images show men struggling to haul the 25-ton stone pillars of Stonehenge into place, creating the distinctive outline of the 4,000-year-old stone circle. But these ...

It's hard to believe that the Stonehenge World Heritage Site — a popular tourist destination in densely populated southern England, and home to one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the ...

At least some of the people who were buried at Stonehenge died and were cremated far from the site — probably in west Wales about 120 miles away, according to a new study. The finding, published ...

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, had gathered ...