You may have thought that New Year’s was only celebrated on January 1, but you couldn’t be more wrong. In other cultures, New Year’s actually doesn’t take place until much later. It’s referred to as ...

See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025.

The start of the 2024 calendar year is here, with no shortage of sky gazing events for local sky watchers. This year debuts 12 full moons, four of which will be four supermoons and one seasonal blue ...

Lunar New Year, that is. In many parts of the world, today (Jan. 22) marks the start of a new year. Lunar New Year is celebrated widely throughout East Asia and marks the beginning of spring and the ...

Lunar New Year — also commonly called Chinese New Year — marks the start of the new year based on lunar calendars, or monthly cycles of the moon's phases. The lunar new year starts with the first new ...

The Lunar New Year marks the beginning of spring and the new year on something called the lunisolar calendar. That's a type of calendar historically used in China that uses the moon and the sun to ...

In December 2025, we will witness four key lunar events, culminating in the last Full Moon of the year, known as the Cold Supermoon. This celestial phenomenon occurs close to the winter solstice, ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A 12 th century C.E. codex from Maya culture accurately predicts solar eclipses. The eclipse table in the Dresden Codex was a lunar calendar that ...