The pontiff was accompanied by astronomers and students participating in the traditional summer school organized by the ...

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

In 2025, Pope Leo XIV visited the Vatican Observatory. He commemorated the 1969 moon landing. He observed the Sea of ...

To celebrate the anniversary of the 1969 moon landing on Sunday (July 20) Pope Leo visited the domes of the Vatican ...

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

A Special Conversation on a Historic Day On the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, something truly remarkable took place. Pope Leo XIV, the spiritual leader of the Catholic Church, spoke ...

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 ...

The Rubin Observatory released its first batch of images on June 23, 2025 as it had scanned the night skies only a few days prior, finding over 2,000 asteroids in the process.

Astronomers celebrate the University of Washington's role in building the Rubin Observatory and look forward to its future discoveries.

The Rubin Observatory will expand upon these previous galactic surveys, increasing the precision of the data and capturing billions more galaxies.