Our shortest month gets a day longer in 2024, as it does every four years for leap year. Feb. 29 helps our calendars catch up with Earth’s rotation around the sun.

Each year has 365 days. Well, almost. Every four years (give or take), our calendars receive an additional day. Known as "leap day," Feb. 29 is tacked on and becomes the last day of the shortest ...

When we have a leap year, the calendar lengthens to 366 days to solve an age-old quandary: the fact that it takes 365.2422 days, not an even 365, for the Earth to complete its orbit around the sun.

Leap years don’t just keep our calendars in sync; they’ve inspired quirky traditions, like women proposing to men, and create birthday challenges for the 1 in 1,461 people born on February 29.

The year 2000 was a leap year, for example, but the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not. The next time a leap year will be skipped is the year 2100," read an article from the Smithsonian.

Why do we have leap years, and what are we supposed to do — or not do — with our rare extra day? NPR's Morning Edition spoke with experts in astronomy, history and economics to find out.

Paint, draw or do a leap year themed project like making frogs or calendars to commemorate 2024's bonus day. Save them to display the next time Feb. 29 occurs. Cook a special meal ...

A leap year is a year with an extra day added to the calendar — also known as leap day — on the29th day of February. The purpose is to keep it aligned with the Earth's orbit around the sun.

Is 2024 a leap year? Yes, 2024 is a leap year. Who created leap year? According to History.com, the Romans used a 23-day intercalary month called Mercedonius to align their calendar with the solar ...

For centuries, humans struggled to sync civil, religious, and agricultural calendars with the solar year. Adding a ‘leap year’ solved the problem—though just for the next 3,300 years.

Leap Day, on Feb. 29, is an extra day added to February every four years, with the last taking place in 2020. Typically, February only has 28 days, and is the shortest month of the year. However ...