The time has finally come. The next two weeks offer us what is probably the grandest pairing of two planets in our lives. It also is a near-replay of what some scholars believe was the most ...

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 ...

For centuries, the Star of Bethlehem was explained as a supernova, or a conjunction of planets, he said. Some theories dismissed the beacon altogether, labeling it a myth, a tantalizing detail written ...