Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, astronomers catalogued the universe on glass photographic plates. Astronomers still study ...

According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the “first true extrasolar planet” was discovered in 1994. But it turns out that a far earlier observer inadvertently captured evidence of an exoplanet, ...

Lots of little dots with no apparent pattern: Where laypeople may just see milky gray photos sprinkled with what look like random crumbs, it is enough to make astronomers' hearts miss a beat. We are ...

The Photographic History Collection (PHC) collection of panoramic objects is fairly extensive. The collection includes about sixty pieces of panoramic related equipment including cameras and ...

Tucked away on Observatory Hill, a spectacular array of lunar photographs resides in the Harvard College Observatory’s Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection. The collection holds ...

Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology. Hudec’s archival ...

The László Moholy-Nagy Collection in the National Museum of American History’s Photographic History Collection is comprised of seven photograms, two photomontages, and one gelatin silver print.

Today, humanity's most advanced telescopes allow astronomers to peer far into the universe. NASA's newest and most powerful astronomical workhorse, the James Webb Space Telescope, has been delivering ...