For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

By studying faint vibrations within stars, scientists using the Keck Planet Finder have discovered internal features that ...

Jupiter will be too close to the sun to see Tuesday, but it will move farther out in the dawn sky and on Aug. 12 will have a ...

On June 17, in the year 2 B.C.E, a significant planetary conjunction occurred involving Venus and Jupiter. From Earth’s perspective, these two bright planets appeared to draw so close that they would ...

The Star of Bethlehem and the Magi: interdisciplinary perspectives from experts on the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman world, and modern astronomy. Brill, 2015.

In the 1960s, the "Star of Bethlehem" show at the old Hayden Planetarium in New York was a holiday highlight, comparable to Radio City Music Hall and the Rockefeller Christmas tree.

The "Star of Bethlehem" show is — or was — to planetariums what "The Nutcracker" is to ballet companies. A yearly cash cow. Just about every planetarium used to have one.

A nova star in a neighbouring galaxy What was the Star of Bethlehem? Did the star really exist? Find out more with our kids' guide to astronomy by local astronomer Mark Lawrik-Thompson.