Göbekli Tepe, a massive archaeological site nestled in the rolling plains of southeastern Turkey, is considered the world’s ...

Many know that the prefix oct- means eight, as in octopus or octagon. But why does October, the 10th month of the year, have ...

Prehistoric peoples may have created the world's oldest lunisolar calendar thousands of years ago to mark a calamitous comet ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Oct. 4, 2024, the moon is 2 days old and is in the New Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 2% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night ...

The next new moon is special as it will result in an annular solar eclipse with a "ring of ... and will be the second new moon in a calendar month. Looking for a telescope to observe the moon ...

The 24 solar terms consisting of 12 major solar terms and 12 minor solar terms were created thousands of years ago by the ...

A typical Jewish year lasts for 354 days, plus or minus a day. A 354-day year is 11 days shy of the Gregorian 365-day solar ...

While neither calendar is perfectly attuned to a solar year, the Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle. A typical Jewish year lasts for 354 days, plus or minus a day. A 354-day year is 11 ...

This insight then led researchers to identify a 365-day solar calendar on one pillar, which includes 12 lunar months and an additional 11 days. A special day, the summer solstice, is represented ...

Venus still hovers low in the southwestern sky at dusk a half-hour to 45 minutes after sunset. Saturn is comfortably high up ...

September 23 is celebrated as Saudi National Day because it marks the date in 1932 when King Abdulaziz announced the official ...

The Next Full Moon is a Partial Lunar Eclipse; a SuperMoon ... of the eighth month of the Chinese year of the Dragon and Rabi' al-Awwal in the Islamic calendar, the month in which many Muslims ...