Captain Christopher Pike has always been one of Star Trek's most compelling leaders, even if he hasn’t always been front and ...

An odd star brightened for more than 70 days in 5 B.C.E., according to a Chinese text. The object may have been a comet that ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star of Bethlehem, he wrote that it should be “classified with the comets which ...

Described in the Gospel of Matthew as the celestial sign that led the Magi to the newborn Jesus, the star stands at the ...

The Force has awakened once again. A new trilogy of "Star Wars" films, set to be written and produced by Simon Kinberg, is in the works at Lucasfilm, a person familiar with the studio's plans who was ...

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.