Also known as the Christmas Star, the Star of Bethlehem appears in the Bible’s Gospel of Matthew, in which the disciple ...

The Star of Bethlehem is the Biblical reference to a star that still ... Even with today’s technology in astronomy and ...

Newcomers to astronomy often assume that winter's ... Some may wonder if the fabled Star of Bethlehem might have been something similar. Astronomers and biblical scholars have long pondered ...

Once thought to be 8 billion years old, the star HD 110067 — famous for its six synchronized exoplanets — may be only 2.5 ...

Created by a young star, the bipolar star-forming region Sharpless 2-106 in this Hubble image depicts how intense the ...

Hundreds of worshippers, both Palestinians and foreigners, attended the Midnight Mass at the Church of Nativity in the West Bank. The regular cheering was absent, and no Christmas tree or ...

Residents are leaving Bethlehem Since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip, the economy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where Bethlehem is located, has suffered a massive slump. Tourism ...

Bethlehem, the West Bank city where Jesus Christ was born ... flight of steps that leads directly to the spot where Jesus was born. A 14-point silver star marks the spot. “Fear not.” Despite the ...

During the early morning of Monday 8 September, the full Moon will move into the shadow of Earth and be totally eclipsed. The ...

The statue of the Baby Jesus rests on the silver star in the Grotto of the Nativity in Bethlehem at the end of the Christmas Eve Mass on Dec. 24, 2024. Credit: Marinella Bandini As the day was ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — I discovered first-hand what it’s like to be surrounded by the eerie silence of Christmas at Christianity’s holiest sites during the Mideast war. I set out earlier ...

Indian astronomers have performed a multiwavelength study of a gamma-ray emitting compact symmetric object known as DA 362.