Astronomers truly live in a bold new era, where ground-breaking camera technology could change the way we understand the ...

The biggest digital camera on Earth is finished — and it will soon revolutionize our grasp of the cosmos. The Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California announced the ...

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 ...

A view of the LSST camera in its clean room at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Credit: Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. A revolutionary telescope will come ...

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 ...

For more than five years, scientists at the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica have been observing the sky with an upgraded camera. The extended gaze toward the cosmos is picking up remnant light from ...

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 ...

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 ...