Castel Gandolfo is also home to one of the Holy See’s more unexpected institutions: the Vatican Observatory, which since its ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

A new summer exhibition in the First Floor Gallery of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library explores the ...

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

Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres in 1801. Initially classified as a planet, Ceres was later called an asteroid. In 2006, ...

The International Space Station's first visitors from India, Poland and Hungary are headed back to Earth. Their SpaceX capsule undocked from the orbiting lab on Monday, targeting a splashdown in the ...

Columbus has a secret that’s been hiding in plain sight – a Victorian brick house where smoke signals rise from behind ornate trim and historical facades, beckoning meat lovers to what might be the ...

The Victorian charm offensive! This brick beauty houses not tea parties but smoky treasures, proving that sometimes the most elegant buildings harbor the most primal delights. Photo credit: Tim Tc A.

Astronomer Henrietta Swope arriving at Las Campanas Observatory in 1976. The 1-meter Swope telescope was named for Swope, who’s generous 1967 gift was used for site development and the purchase of the ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson spotlights the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, set to revolutionize astronomy with its 3.2-gigapixel eye, tracking supernovae, dark matter, and the dynamic universe like never before.