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

Pope Leo visited the Vatican’s internationally-recognized observatory, called the Specola Vaticana, where he was able to look ...

Pope Leo XIV commemorated the 56th anniversary of the moon landing with a visit to the Vatican Observatory and a call to astronaut Buzz Aldrin. This marks his first observatory visit, highlighting the ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called astronaut Buzz Aldrin and visited the Vatican's observatory to mark the 56th anniversary of man ...

Pope Leo XIV called astronaut Buzz Aldrin and visited the Vatican's astronomical observatory in Castel Gandolfo to mark the 56th anniversary of man's first moon landing.

This was Pope Leo's first visit to the observatory, founded in 1891 by Leo XIII. He later called Aldrin. “Together we shared ...