A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape. "This caught our attention," Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and space ...

You know you live in the space age when solar storms knock out farmers' GPS-reliant tractors and a camera in Earth's lofty orbit films a rocket launching through the atmosphere. "This is believed to ...

The first 360-degree cameras sent to space have captured incredible, high-definition images of Earth like never before seen. Chinese tech company Insta360 recently unveiled the breathtaking photos of ...

A powerful software tool capable of accurately modeling how cameras capture light could help democratize the development of new imaging systems for use in space. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

On the last day of May, at one minute to five in the afternoon (Eastern time), an impressive asteroid named 1998 QE2 will whiz past Earth at its closest approach for the next two centuries. Slooh ...

A new era in space exploration has officially begun. On 23 June 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile unveiled its first breathtaking images of the cosmos, captured using the world's largest ...

Ready to scan the night sky to look for evidence of dark matter, identify near-Earth asteroids, and much more, the camera for the upcoming Vera Rubin Observatory is now complete. This is the world’s ...

X-ray cameras designed by MIT astrophysicists are a key component of a new instrument aboard an orbiting Japanese observatory that will probe the secrets of such phenomena as exploding stars. Recently ...

A new camera designed for upcoming crewed missions to the moon has been tested by astronauts in lunar-like environments on Earth. The Handheld Universal Lunar Camera (HULC) is being developed by ...