Christians are well aware of the Nativity story, in which three wise men follow the "Star of Bethlehem" to the newborn Jesus. But does this biblical story have astronomical origins? What was the ...

In 2025, NASA planetary scientist Mark Matney published a study about the Star in Journal of the British Astronomical ...

Could the Star of Bethlehem have been caused by a “great conjunction” of the bright planets Venus and Jupiter? On June 17, 2 B.C., the planets had come so close they would have almost appeared as one ...

( NewsNation) — A Bethlehem grotto is to be restored for the first time in 600 years. Restoration of the Grotto of the ...

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The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land have announced that works are set to begin to restore the 'cradle' of Christianity - the place where Jesus was born - in ...

The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land announce that works are set to begin to restore ...