Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could the Star of Bethlehem, which guided the 'three wise men' to the infant Jesus in the Christian Bible, have been a comet that ...

In a few days we'll arrive again at Christmas. Christmases come around faster now than they used to. When I was young it seemed as if the next one would never get here, and now they zoom past at such ...

In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the "Christmas Star" from the story of the nativity. Described in the Gospel of Matthew, the star guided ...

A stained glass window at St. Joseph's Catholic Church depicts the Virgin Mary with baby Jesus in a manger in Bethlehem stable, joined by Joseph and the three wise men. Christmas Day is the annual ...