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 ...

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 ...

Observing the night sky through a telescope is one of life’s great joys, and a wonderful way to learn about space and the universe beyond our planet. But perhaps even better is sharing that experience ...

The Dangdangli Smart Astronomical Telescope TW2 has been launched on the Xiaomi Youpin crowdfunding platform. The impressive TW2 telescope combines a telescope and a digital camera in a single device.

Of all the objects that you can view through a telescope, some of the most stunning to behold are the planets in our solar system, and the galaxies that lie far beyond it. But if you want to see more ...

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera is the size of a small car—and the biggest digital camera ever built for astronomy. By Andrew Paul Published Apr 3, 2024 9:00 AM EDT Get the Popular ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, has achieved a major milestone with the installation of the ...

One story rose above all the others — new and older telescopes are putting us on the cusp of monumental discoveries about our universe.