For more than two millennia, people around the world have wondered about the Star of Bethlehem, the mysterious celestial object said to have guided the three wise men to the birthplace of Jesus. Now, ...

Astronomers have long sought a cosmic explanation for the Bible’s Star of Bethlehem, the shining celestial object that, so the story goes, guided the wise men, or magi, from Jerusalem to greet the ...

The Star of Bethlehem has long hovered between faith and physics, a luminous mystery that resists easy explanation. Now a planetary researcher argues that the famous light guiding the magi was not a ...