A Special Conversation on a Historic Day On the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, something truly remarkable ...

Peering at the sunlit skies through a Vatican-owned space telescope and calling the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 spaceflight mission was how Pope Leo XIV celebrated the ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of man’s arrival on the moon Sunday with a visit to the Vatican ...

After praying the Sunday Angelus at his summer retreat in Castel Gandolfo, Leo headed to the astronomical observatory located ...

Pope Leo visited the Vatican’s internationally-recognized observatory, called the Specola Vaticana, where he was able to look ...

The Vatican Observatory is one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world, dating back to the reform of the calendar in 1582, ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of the moon landing with a visit to the Vatican Observatory. Accompanied by ...

The Vatican Observatory foundation has new podcast as well as a new website and online store where you can buy posters of outer spaces scenes. (CNS photo/J. Kalirai, NASA/ESA/Hubble via Reuters) ...

For a long time, the Catholic Church rejected scientific findings that conflicted with its doctrine, even persecuting Galileo. Now the Vatican looks to promote its observatory as a bridge to science.