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Q. I have clumps of a grassy-looking type of plant scattered throughout my perennial garden. When I dig it up, I found it has bulbs below the ground that look like wild onion or garlic – except it has ...

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 ...

Astronomers have long sought a cosmic explanation for the Bible’s Star of Bethlehem, the shining celestial object that, so the story goes, guided the wise men, or magi, from Jerusalem to greet the ...

The Star of Bethlehem has long hovered between faith and physics, a luminous mystery that resists easy explanation. Now a planetary researcher argues that the famous light guiding the magi was not a ...

Astronomers have long sought a cosmic explanation for the Bible’s Star of Bethlehem, the shining celestial object that, so the story goes, guided the wise men, or magi, from Jerusalem to greet the ...

The direction, distance and motion of the comet through the sky during its closest approach could have made it seem like it was hovering over Bethlehem when Jesus was said to have been born. When you ...