His passion for astronomy began in the 1960s, inspired by the Apollo program and early morning comet viewings with his father Stockdale received the 2026 Berenice and Arthur Page Medal for his ...

Here’s one for our astronomy geeks. Our hacker [arrow] has made their own observatory! This particular video is a bit over ten minutes long and is basically a montage; there is no narration or ...

Claude Plymate calls his backyard home observatory the clubhouse that he never had as a child. The solar astronomer and his wife, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, ordered the white 10-by-10-foot domed ...

ENNIS, Texas — As you're reading this, people from around the nation and the world are gearing up to trek to Texas to see our total eclipse on April 8. Off of Old City Lake in Ennis, where totality is ...

One man discovered over 100 exoplanets, all from the comfort of his backyard. Chris Stockdale, who lives in Victoria, Australia, has a backyard observatory, which includes a "telescope mounted on a ...

Chris Stockdale first became interested in outer space during the 1960s and built his own observatory Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a member of the PEOPLE App ...