NASA’s Perseverance Rover touched ground on the red planet on Feb. 18 and today NASA announced some of its first discoveries.

His was a life full of discovery, invention and public service.

Julie Payette, Canada’s new governor general, stirred up controversy with a speech to a scientific gathering in which she seemed to pit “divine intervention” against “natural process.”

On June 19, NASA announced that its Kepler space telescope team had identified 219 new planet candidates.

Science is a necessary point of reference, but it should by no means be the only political voice in the conversation.

The most fundamental motivation of science is the human desire for contemplation.

She would have to leave her intellect behind, my friend assumed, if she followed up on a profound experience of God that had led her to Mass. Eventually she decided to enroll in the catechumenate in order to become a member of the Catholic Church. Taking this step, she explained to me, would require

Adam D. Hincks, S.J., on the discovery of the "God particle," which resulted in a Nobel prize this week for two physicists

New scientific discoveries and old truths