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VATICAN CITY (RNS) -- Two Catholic priests, both astrophysicists from the Vatican Observatory, have suggested a radically new mathematical approach to studying the initial moments following the Big Bang that gave birth to our universe.

(RNS) — Speaking from the Vatican observatory, Jesuit Father Gabriele Gionti and Diocesan Father Matteo Galaverni outlined their hopes for unveiling the secrets of the cosmos.

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The centuries-old mystery of why jets of plasma up to more than 10,000 kilometres high are shot from the solar surface of the Sun has been solved in a paper for Nature Physics co-written by an Aberystwyth University researcher. Its answer can be expl

The Sun is literally the closest star to us in the entire Universe, but there’s a lot about it that’s still pretty mysterious.

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For a long time, the Catholic Church rejected scientific findings that conflicted with its doctrine, even persecuting Galileo. Now the Vatican looks to promote its observatory as a bridge to science.

The Vatican’s Space Observatory Wants To See Stars And Faith Align

Popular interest in Mars is long-established, but has enjoyed two dramatic flowerings, one in the 1890s and the other a century later. Two developments have quickened current media attention: the revelation by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in August 1996 that it possessed a small meteorite which might have come to Earth from Mars and might contain fossils of primitive life forms; and the dispatch to Mars, by NASA, of spacecraft designed to scrutinise the planet, an...