Last month’s supermoon was 2,800 miles (4,500 kilometers) closer, making it the year’s closest. The series started in August.

The lunar calendar was the basis for figuring out when ... basis of weights and measures and rations? Hudson: The early ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected ... Note: Moon phases in the calendar vary in size due to the distance from Earth ...

The Southern Taurid meteor shower reaches its peak Nov. 12. Here's how to maximize your chances of seeing a colorful fireball ...

The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found on cylinders used in ...

True, it follows the Chinese Lunar calendar, but the holiday is celebrated across the entire continent of Asia, and each country has its own customs and traditions. Lunar New Year is most often ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

Celebrated in China for thousands of years, the Chinese New Year/Lunar New Year holiday—also called Spring Festival—is based on a complicated calendar that uses both the lunar (cycles of the ...

Children are especially excited to eat ddeokguk because consuming a bowl marks a person’s Lunar Calendar Birthday. There are scattered reports of youngsters trying to grow more than one year by ...

Want to see lunar eclipses up close? We recommend the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ as the best for basic astrophotography in our best beginner's telescope guide. November's full moon will ...