Can anyone recommend a good affordable USB camera for use on a telescope? My main requirement is for the camera to support UVC, since I don't want to find myself with a driver-less device in two years ...

We’ve all seen spectacular pictures of space, and it’s easy to assume that’s how it looks to the naked eye through a nice telescope. But in most cases, that’s simply not true.

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.

Obtained by UB as part of a project to observe last year's total solar eclipse, the telescope will be used for education and ...

One night was all it took. I was hooked after my first encounter with CCD imaging. I can still recall the thrill of seeing the images pop onto the computer screen seconds after the camera’s shutter ...

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 ...

The public is now used to seeing space up close, thanks to cameras watching everything from satellites deploying to a spacesuit-clad "dummy" cruising in a Tesla — so why doesn't NASA's giant new ...

AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph a plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

The Hubble Space Telescope is still largely in safe mode more than two weeks after it first experienced problems, but parts of the 30-year-old space legend are starting to come back online. The ...