A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...

A new astronomical study is reviving debate over one of the Bible’s most enduring mysteries. For centuries, the Star of ...

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A NASA astronomer proposes a bright comet visible for over 70 days in 5BC as the Star of Bethlehem. This celestial event ...

A NASA scientist proposes a bright comet observed around 5 BC might explain the Star of Bethlehem. Detailed Chinese sky ...

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

An odd star brightened for more than 70 days in 5 B.C.E., according to a Chinese text. The object may have been a comet that ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem recently discovered a massive Hanukkah-era wall from an ancient power struggle between Hasmonean ...

After its account of Jesus’ birth, the Bible is almost entirely silent on his childhood. Yet legends about Jesus’ early years ...

If there is a villain in the Nativity story it is surely Herod, the monarch who supposedly slaughtered thousands of infants ...

Matney, a planetary scientist, suggests the "star" might have been a comet that came extremely close to Earth over 2,000 ...

A ‘PROPHET’ who calls himself Noah has knocked up a fleet of homemade arks as he insists a biblical flood will hit Earth on ...