We love photographs for the way they capture a moment, a smile, a friendship — although sometimes we don’t realize the camera’s luck for years. The same is true of photographs of the stars. There were ...

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 ...

A photographic plate of the 1919 total solar eclipse, taken by Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin and Charles Rundle Davidson during an expedition to Sobral, Brazil. The 1919 eclipse was used by ...

On a small hill in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 170 tons of glass, imprinted with history, sit in a dimly lit corner. Each rectangular plate is about the size of a sheet of paper and, with ...

Glass is often thought of as a very stable, unchanging material. That, unless you drop it, it will be around forever. This, however, is far from the truth. Glass undergoes a unique and insidious type ...

Researchers at Microsoft have developed a method to store massive amounts of digital information inside small plates of glass, a breakthrough that could preserve the world’s data for more than 10,000 ...