From religious and cultural holidays to region-specific commemorations, the holiday calendars across the 50 states and the ...

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.

On February 1 and 2 next year, Sheffield is set to celebrate the Lunar Chinese New Year with the biggest festival yet. It ...

Though we are now habituated to the cycle of 12 calendar months, months were originally based on the lunar cycle. There are ...

Following the interest in the rare Hunter's Moon supermoon which just arrived last week for skygazers, Google is getting in on some cool lunar activities right before Halloween falls with today's ...

Seollal, or Korean Lunar New Year is a holiday and celebration which marks the first ... Children are especially excited to eat ddeokguk because consuming a bowl marks a person’s Lunar Calendar ...

When does Hanukkah start? While Christmas is celebrated on Dec. 25 every year, the date for Hanukkah changes. Here's why.

Falling on the first day of the month Muharram (the first of the Islamic lunar calendar), the Islamic New Year will likely be commemorated on Sunday July 7. Whether a public holiday on a working day ...

A Chinese official whisked a red blanket off a glass case containing the tiny lunar fragment at a ceremony ... has no official presence at this year's event, however. NASA has been investing ...

For the first time New York City public school students will be off in honor of Diwali on Friday, but what exactly is Diwali?