Over thousands of years, various cultures have developed calendars based on astronomical observations, leading to diverse ...

The reason for the changing date is that Chinese New Year’s timing is based on the lunar year used for the Chinese calendar, which is sometimes called the Chinese Agricultural Calendar.

As many people gear up to celebrate the start of their New Year at the beginning of January, we take a look at how other ...

and other cultures that use different calendars celebrate the New Year on a different day. While this might sound foreign to many Americans, hundreds of thousands of us also celebrate a second New ...

In November, 115 container vessels passed through the canal, a 72 percent drop from the 422 that passed through a year ago, ...

Firefly Aerospace The Moon is the place to be right now. Commercial spacecraft are gearing up to land on the lunar surface, unboxing an array of tools and instruments to explore different regions ...

It is not just December, rather all months named after numericals — September (from septem meaning seven), October (octo ...

The Coptic year is the extension of the ancient Egyptian civil year, retaining its subdivision into the three seasons, four months each. The three seasons are commemorated by special prayers in the ...

Thanks to the regular repetition of these moments, since ancient times, the lunar phases have been the basis of the lunisolar calendar. However, it was difficult to establish the exact moment of ...

In our roundup of 2024's top science stories, we feature particle physics research to two-billion-year-old rocks that yielded ...