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 ...

The Dangdangli Smart Astronomical Telescope TW2 has been launched on the Xiaomi Youpin crowdfunding platform. The impressive TW2 telescope combines a telescope and a digital camera in a single device.

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.

The world's most powerful and advanced digital camera, destined to become the "eye" of a telescope high in the Chilean Andes, has been given the green light by the U.S. Department of Energy. They have ...

Astronomers in California are building the largest digital camera in the world. It will go on a giant telescope taking shape in Chile called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. LSST is different from ...

The astonishing Aperture Spherical Telescope in Guizhou, China, may not have the tourist pull it once did, since the Chinese government imposed strict new rules against carrying or using electronic ...

So you think your 10 megapixel camera is da bomb. Pffh. It's got nothing on the shooter recently installed on the PS1 telescope in Maui, Hawaii. Sixty separate chips give this cam 1,400 megapixels to ...

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 ...