Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...

The funeral for Pope Francis will be held on Saturday, the Vatican said. Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for humility and outreach efforts to people of disparate ...

The Vatican’s “trial of the century” has resumed with appeals after setbacks for the pope’s prosecutors. Cardinal Angelo Becciu and eight others were convicted of financial crimes in 2023.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is facing his first major crisis with traditionalist Catholics, after a breakaway group ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang. When you purchase ...

One would think that a US$99,000 telescope requires specialist training and a thick instruction manual. But the new Hyperia from French company Vaonis flips that assumption on its head. It's powerful ...

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a dying sunlike star is enriching the galaxy with the elements needed for life.

Last May, pop fans and pope fans united in the shared thrill of playing Where’s Waldo: Harry Styles Edition when fans spotted the singer outside of Saint Peter’s Basilica to welcome the papacy of Leo ...

It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Even for astronomers who have gazed upon the same cosmic object over their whole career, new portraits of these celestial bodies from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have the power to delight ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “Eye of Sauron.” It is also one of the closest bright nebulae to Earth, located ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that time was “running out” in the race to build the next great optical telescope ...