In ancient Judaism and early Christianity, angels were portrayed as powerful beings who guarded the Garden of Eden, ...

A surprising number of people say they are open to the existence of angels. Their Old Testament identities are very different ...

Theologians and biblical scholars don’t usually trespass into popular religion. That tends to be the territory of religion scholars. The difference is part of the implicit and sometimes explicit ...

In this awesome image, captured by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, we see a stellar nursery. But this isn’t just any nursery; it seems that these stellar babies are guarded by a ...

Just in time for the holidays, the Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a spectacular view of a star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy that looks like a snow angel in deep space. This region, ...

The Christmas story is replete with angels, those mysterious celestial beings known to Christians, Jews and Muslims. Artists and lyricists have been fascinated with angels, deeply influencing our ...

A statue of the angel Lucifer stands in the Retiro park in Madrid on April 29, 2005. Wrought in bronze, its mouth is agape in horror with fang-baring snakes coiled around the legs, as it falls from ...

Angels, it seems, are not just for Christmas. Authors and film-makers are rushing to bring out books and movies starring celestial beings to cash in on the latest publishing craze. Not that readers ...

Just in time for the holidays, the Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a spectacular view of a star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy that looks like a snow angel in deep space. This region, ...