In 2025, astronomers at Germany's Max Planck Institute quietly revealed a discovery buried in decades of dormant satellite ...

Astronomers have finally mapped out a mysterious galactic "supercluster" that has been almost completely hidden from Earth since it was discovered 10 years ago. The results reveal that the structure ...

The findings could more than double our current database of worlds that loop around binary star systems. But researchers need ...

The trick isn't to just search for biosignatures, but rather to look at how they are organized — and the Europa Clipper has ...

3I/ATLAS became the main character when it came hurtling into our solar system last year, so it’s only fitting it gets a dramatic backstory. After using the ALMA observatory in Chile to closely ...

Astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) have made the first direct detection of ...

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 ...

Pluto was believed to be the only body beyond Neptune with an atmosphere. Now, a new discovery in our solar system is ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

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 ...

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 ...