It's a flashy follow-up to a 2015 lightning study. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An astronaut and his new camera will peer at ...

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 ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Sen cameras captured stunning views of SpaceX's Starship megarocket launch from the ...

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 ...

First motion is almost always a big event in the world of space exploration. Whether the first motion is of a wheel beginning to rotate or a rocket lifting off the pad, first motion means things are ...

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 ...

Ultra-lightweight space cameras offer maximum performance in a minimalist package. This combination is incredibly important when launching a spacecraft, where weight is at a premium, and every gram ...

If you've been tasked with buying a Christmas gift for a photographer and have no idea what to get them, you've come to the right place. Chances are the person you're buying for either seems to have ...

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 ...

Two MIT students managed to snap this incredible picture of our planet by spending just $150 on a Canon camera, a weather balloon full of helium, and a styrofoam cooler. The camera reached 93,000 feet ...