In October 2014, the Netherlands’ University of Groningen celebrated its 400th anniversary with a two-day colloquium on the Star of Bethlehem. There, 20 cross-departmental scholars presented ...

On Dec. 21, 2020, Jupiter and Saturn will cross paths in the night’s sky ... Mary and the newly born Jesus – the Star of Bethlehem. As a scholar of early Christian literature writing a book ...

"[so] it's not impossible that the Star of Bethlehem was a planetary alignment like this". As planets cross paths on their journey around the Sun, conjunctions are not particularly rare, but this ...