The Islamic, or Hijri, calendar also begins with the Hijra. Based on lunar cycles, its 12 months contain either 29 or 30 days, producing years of 354 or 355 days. The start of each month is ...

This gives us pause to reflect: What would it mean to make space in our school calendars to include different religious and cultural celebrations? Since the 1990s, the establishment of a meat ...

China is making steady progress in its manned lunar exploration program, with all research and construction work advancing as planned to achieve the goal of sending Chinese astronauts to the lunar ...

Countries with the longest and shortest fasting hours in 2025: The sacred month of Ramadan, often referred to as Ramzan, Ramzaan, or Ramazan, is the ninth month in the Islamic lunar calendar or the ...

That’s because Islam follows the lunar calendar, based on the moon’s cycles – unlike the Gregorian calendar, which follows the sun. As such, dates on the Islamic calendar come 10–12 days ...

Yes, there are two. Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. Eid al-Adha happens on the last month of the lunar calendar and follows the completion of the annual Holy Pilgrimage of Hajj. It's also known ...

“The tracking of these pre-partum cases is accomplished by something called the DCF pregnancy calendar, which is essentially a central inventory of high risk pregnant women upon whom DCF has ...

The Athena lunar lander by Intuitive Machines landed on its side in a crater, keeping it from generating sufficient power. Credit: Intuitive Machines WASHINGTON — After two hard landings on the ...

Biologists have built up one of the most detailed pictures ever of the changes that occur in women’s bodies before and after pregnancy, by pooling and studying around 44 million physiological ...

Her patient was a pregnant woman who had opted for noninvasive prenatal testing, or NIPT, a screen for Down syndrome and a handful of other conditions that had been on the market for only two years.

The Blue Ghost lander captured the shots before going silent. A space robot said "good night" to the moon as it completed its two-week mission, capturing the first high-definition images of a ...

After delivering ten NASA science and technology payloads to the near side of the Moon through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue ...