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

A planetary alignment will be happening later this month on February 28. Six planets will be visible after sunset: Saturn, ...

Pope Leo XIV is facing his first major crisis with traditionalist Catholics. A breakaway group attached to the traditional ...

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.

School District U-46’s Planetarium and Observatory has been named a member of the Alliance of Historic Observatories.

On Sunday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stuffed with cargo carried a brand new NASA telescope into space, where it was observed deploying in Sun-synchronous orbit, the agency later confirmed. Dubbed ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground observatories. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang reported on the unveiling of Schmidt ...

PHOENIX — A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a space telescope larger than Hubble that its backers say can be built ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope completed final assembly in late November 2025 with a launch as soon as the fall of 2026. Credit: NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya PHOENIX — NASA expects to launch the ...

At the end of November, NASA’s next great telescope — the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — officially finished construction. Teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland joined the inner ...

The Catholic Church has a long history of supporting environmental stewardship. This tradition got a recent boost. The late Pope Francis’ goal of powering the Vatican by 100% solar energy is happening ...

The Vatican aims to eliminate more than a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions it produces over the next decade, according to plans it has submitted to the United Nations. The Holy See filed the ...