Perched in the hills outside Rome sits the Palace of Castel Gandolfo, the centuries-old lakeside summer home for popes, which is also home to the Vatican Observatory, established in 1891 to help ...

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Pope Leo XIV said on Tuesday he was deeply saddened by a suicide attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Syria at the weekend. A ...

Vatican Observatory Summer School welcomes students from 21 nations to explore the universe with JWST, igniting passion for ...

Long after the human authors of Sacred Scripture pondered the moment of creation with “their poetic and religious imagination,” Pope Leo XIV said, modern scientists continue to explore the universe ...

The pope spoke to students gathered as part of a monthlong astronomy and astrophysics summer school program hosted by the Vatican Observatory.

As temperatures in Rome swelter this month, reaching more than 35 degrees Celsius (95°F) under the hot Mediterranean sun, Pope Leo has decided to leave town.

In the 1980s, the Vatican and the University of Arizona reached an agreement to build an observatory on Mount Graham, one of the best places in the world to study the stars. Vatican telescope ...

A Greenfield Twp. Jesuit’s research has taken him to the Vatican Observatory – and his studies to the stars. The Rev. Cyril P. Opeil, S.J., took a yearlong sabbatical from his work as an ...

The Vatican Observatory, called Specola Vaticana, was established in 1891 by Pope Leo XIII to promote dialogue between faith and science. Forty physicists will participate at the gathering, including ...

Astronomers gathered at the Vatican Observatory this month to hear the results of major research into thousands of previously hidden galaxies that the Milky Way has long obscured. A press release ...