The Star of Bethlehem has long hovered between faith and physics, a luminous mystery that resists easy explanation. Now a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Was the “Star of Bethlehem” an actual astronomical event? At ...

As a young boy, one of my highlights of the Christmas season was visiting New York's Hayden Planetarium where they would stage their traditional sky show in which astronomers pondered the age-old ...

Could the Star of Bethlehem have been caused by a “great conjunction” of the bright planets Venus and Jupiter? On June 17, 2 B.C., the planets had come so close they would have almost appeared as one ...

The Christian Bible describes how a so-called Star of Bethlehem guided three wise men to Jerusalem where they found the newborn Jesus. There are many theories that attempt to explain what the Star of ...

“When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, ‘Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star at its rising ...

This post originally ran in 2017. “I am a native Bethlehemite. I am proud to be one and dearly love my Bethlehem,” Mrs. Eugene C. Grace said on Dec. 7, 1937. “There is one thing, however, about my ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The “Star of Bethlehem is captivating story. A bright star ...

The Star of Bethlehem may have been a planetary conjunction. A comet or supernova are less likely explanations. Multiple planetary alignments around 7-3 BC could have been interpreted as significant.

"I am a native Bethlehemite. I am proud to be one and dearly love my Bethlehem," Mrs. Eugene C. Grace said on Dec. 7, 1937. "There is one thing, however, about my Bethlehem that I have never been ...