After the Vatican announced the pontiff’s death, the news reverberated across the Chicago area, Naperville included.

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process. These are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of news in the coming days.

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...

In a landmark discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary stellar-mass black hole—an object with ...

A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' ...

Black Catholics in America have ties back to colonial times and are actively campaigning for a Black Catholic saint.