The year was 2021, when our Gear Editor, Feroz Khan, spoke to Professor Aaron Roodman about the world’s largest camera that ...

The LaserSETI project, a pioneering initiative from the SETI Institute, continues to push the boundaries of optical SETI ...

Spotting a possible interstellar object is incredibly rare, and it’s exciting that our UH-operated system caught it,” ...

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July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

After more than two decades of planning and building, the world's largest digital camera at the heart of the Vera C. Rubin ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

ESA's PLATO space telescope is scheduled to launch at the end of 2026 and begin its search for Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars in 2027. The telescope's optical bench, with its 26 cameras, ...

We have rounded up the best lenses for astrophotography so you can capture detailed night sky objects and there are savings on the horizon with Prime Day coming on July 8!

Vera Rubin Observatory unveiled first images: millions of galaxies captured in just 10 hours of observation.

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...