India, Dec. 30 -- Times Square has been perfecting the art of the countdown since 1907, but for New Year's Eve 2025, you can bet it's about to glow harder than your phone screen at 3 am. Meet The Constellation Ball, the brand-new Times Square New Year's Eve Ball that will descend from One Times Square to ring in 2026. Recently unveiled, it's the ninth iteration of the iconic ball (and the largest ever), measuring 12.5 feet in diameter and weighing 12,350 pounds.

What makes it different? For the first time in the ball's modern history, the surface is patterned with circular Waterford crystal pieces, replacing the triangular shapes introduced in 1999. There are 5,280 Waterford crystals in total, nearly double the previous count, in three s...