The search for the biblical Star of Bethlehem has long hovered between faith and astronomy, but a new claim from a NASA comet specialist is pushing that mystery back into the scientific spotlight.

The Star of Bethlehem sits at the crossroads of faith and astronomy, a single light in the Gospel story that has inspired centuries of sky watching and speculation. Today, a growing group of ...

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 ...