Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch. 1355: The St. Scholastica’s Day riot breaks out in Oxford, leaving ...

The Vatican's Arizona location dates back to 1980, when the Vatican partnered with the University of Arizona to study the ...

As the director of the Vatican Observatory, known informally as “the pope’s astronomer,” he has just published his 13th book — “A Jesuit’s Guide to the Stars: Exploring Wonder ...

We spoke to the Astronomy Education Officer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, Jessica Lee, to find out what you can see this month in the night sky from London. Celebrating its 350th anniversary ...

Mount Spurr, whose volcanic ash darkened Anchorage’s skies in 1953 and 1992, may be building toward another eruption, according to a statement issued Thursday by the Alaska Volcano Observatory.

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a ... Byrd Green Bank Telescope. The observatory operates several other telescopes, among them a 140-foot telescope that employs a rare equatorial mount, ...

Last September, astronomers identified one of the most massive exoplanets ever found. The following month, five years of data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope ...

Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, who has led the observatory since 2015, shares his journey of becoming a Jesuit astronomer, explains the compatibility of science and faith and guides readers on how to ...