The world's attention will soon turn to a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel as cardinals inside use a once-mysterious recipe to create smoke that signals their progress in choosing a new pope.

The election of a pope follows a strict daily schedule inside the Sistine Chapel. Following the start of conclave on May 7, the College of Cardinals are fully sequestered behind locked doors with no ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted complex organic molecules, which usually form in smoke and smog, in the very distant universe. With help from a galactic gravitational anomaly, the telescope ...

All eyes on the Vatican! The cardinals have assembled and the process to elect the next Pope is set to begin. The conclave will start behind the closed doors of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Pope Francis' passing, crowds will soon gather in Vatican City to honor and celebrate the traditions of selecting his ...

More than 130 cardinals will arrive in Vatican City within the week to participate in the upcoming papal conclave, selecting Pope Francis' successor. Though the process is done in secrecy, thousands ...

Black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening, signalling an inconclusive first vote by cardinals locked in the Sistine Chapel in a conclave to elect a new pope to ...

Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel during the cardinals' conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican on May 7, 2025. After their first vote, 133 cardinal-electors did not ...

Black smoke rising from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel signals that cardinals failed to elect a new pope during their conclave in the Vatican on May 8, 2025. AP Black smoke appeared from a chimney ...

VATICAN CITY — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a new ...