On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

Scientists have spent six years building a sophisticated simulation system that creates "pixel-perfect" data that mimics what the telescope will see at a pixel level to test the Chinese Space Station ...

Scientists all over the world are celebrating because of a discovery made by a telescope built in the Bay Area. New objects, including some of the biggest, fastest moving asteroids ever seen, are ...

If you've ever tried to take a photo of the moon and stars, you know that astrophotography is incredibly challenging. Although there are tips and tricks for taking astrophotos on your cell phone, to ...

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is an 18-story facility that will repeatedly scan the sky for 10 ...

Diffraqtion, an MIT and University of Maryland spinout developing satellite constellations powered by a novel quantum camera, today announced the close of their pre-seed funding round, led by QDNL ...

Images from the world’s largest camera, built in the Bay Area, have just been released, providing a first-of-its-kind window across deep space. Over the next decade, the device, mounted on a telescope ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We'll let other publications offer you ...

This has been called the golden age of astronomy, and there’s a new telescope on the block — or, more precisely, on top of a mountain in Chile. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by American ...

Perched high in the foothills of Chile’s Andes mountains, a revolutionary new space telescope has just taken its first pictures of the cosmos—and they’re spectacular. Astronomers are excited about the ...

The world’s biggest and most iconic radio telescopes are joining forces with a bold aim – to make new images of black holes and their surroundings, in detail and in new colours. In Sweden, Chalmers ...

Anthony Wesley, an amateur astronomer from Australia, has combined an industrial camera with image sensors to capture high-resolution pictures of earth’s neighboring planets, including Venus, Mars, ...