My interest in astronomy really took flight at age 9 or 10. While looking through books in my primary school library, I became fascinated by the amazing pictures of far-off worlds and galaxies that ...

Spacecraft engineers may not think of themselves as artists, but in the right hands, the fruit of their labors can be as artistic and as revolutionary as Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical sketches — as ...

A photographer has captured six planets in one picture as part of a celestial planetary parade. Josh Dury, from Bristol, photographed the phenomenon from a radar memorial in Worth Matravers, Dorset, ...

THE recording on photographic plates of the canals of Mars is as significant from a technical point of view as it has proved of widespread interest in its result; for the method which alone rendered ...

I UNDERSTAND that in photographing a planet, such as Mars, only a short exposure can be allowed, because there is no way of compensating the planet's axial rotation. But, while following the planet ...