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 ...

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A new digital telescope called Dwarf has launched via Kickstarter and has already raised over $100,000 thanks to over 600 backers with still 26 days remaining. The pocket size digital telescope is ...

Construction work on the world’s largest radio telescope began on Monday some 320 miles north of the western city of Perth. When the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is complete, the $2 billion facility ...

When you think of innovative new space launch concepts, you likely think of rockets like SpaceX’s Starship or NASA’s Space Launch System carrying telescopes or robotic explorers out into orbit and ...

Unistellar's Equinox 2, debuting at CES, is smart enough to point itself at the stars, nebulas and galaxies you pick with your smartphone. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

The world's largest digital camera is nearly complete. Scientists expect exciting discoveries once the 3.2 billion-pixel camera is paired with its telescope. NPR's science correspondent Joe Palca ...

A viral backyard-telescope photo claims to outshine NASA's $30 billion "close-up" view of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — but ...

Technicians are putting the final touches on the world's largest digital camera at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The camera will be sent to Chile and installed on a telescope in the Andes.