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Catholic NASA scientist delves into investigation of potential life on other planets
Jonathan Lunine, the chief scientist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, spoke to 100 Catholic scientists at an event in Washington,... Read more
Virginia Catholic school among 2 middle schools in world picked for NASA rover challenge
Middle schoolers at St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Richmond Diocese were selected to participate in NASA’s Human Exploration Rover... Read more
Celebrations planned for 30th anniversary of Vatican Observatory’s Arizona telescope
In 1981, the Vatican Observatory launched a research center under the famously dark Arizona skies, where it inaugurated its telescope... Read more
Meet the Vatican scientist helping NASA on a historic space mission
Brother Robert Macke, a Jesuit astronomer at the Vatican Observatory, is one of the world’s foremost experts in the study... Read more
Catholic astronomers: Newly discovered planet a testament to Earth’s ‘startling uniqueness’
Catholic scientists from the Vatican Observatory and Benedictine College hailed the discovery of the planet as a testament “to the... Read more
Vatican astronomer: Webb telescope space images are ‘food for the human spirit’
The first images from the James Webb space telescope reveal God’s creation and feed our souls, a Jesuit brother and... Read more
