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

Peering at the sunlit skies through a Vatican-owned space telescope and calling the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated the anniversary of the of the Apollo 11 spaceflight mission, the first crewed moon landing.

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called astronaut Buzz Aldrin and visited the Vatican's astronomical observatory in Castel Gandolfo to mark ...

Pope Leo XIV has extended his vacation at Castel Gandolfo by two days. How does he relax? And what have other popes done with ...

On July 21, 1925 — a century ago today — substitute teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating a state ban on ...

An Israeli army strike on the only Catholic church in Gaza last week has pushed the Vatican to change its tone on Israel and ...

Fifty-six years after the historic landing of Apollo 11 on the moon, Pope Leo XIV spoke over the phone with astronaut Buzz Aldrin of the historic achievement.NASA launched Apollo 11, the first manned ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of man’s arrival on the moon Sunday with a visit to the Vatican astronomical ...