"You can't follow a star from Baghdad to Jerusalem to Bethlehem," Weintraub said. "Stars don't do that. They rise and set, and they don't sit in the sky." Such an event would surely have been seen ...

At Christmas, we remember the wise men who followed a star to Bethlehem. But what was the star? The Christmas star At ...

In the process of "following the star", Hardeep's team track the possible course taken by the Three Wise Men and ask what kind of journey was it? And despite being vital characters in the story of ...

After a consultation, Herod tells them that the Messiah is to be born in Bethlehem, and they set out again. But even here, Matthew does not say they were following the star. When they had heard ...

In the Christmas story, then, the wise men chose to follow a star to navigate their way to Bethlehem—but, scientifically speaking, would that really have worked? Fortunately, Randall Munroe of ...