Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft is on a ...

Large and complex sunspot groups characterize the surface of the dynamic sun during its activity cycle. A new camera system at the Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT) at the Observatorio del Teide on ...

Reporters can now access and download satellite images good enough to see individual buildings at almost every location on Earth — in minutes, with no special skills, and entirely for free. Of course, ...

U.S. scientists have developed a method to forecast solar irradiance at any location using a single high-resolution ...

A project at Duke University has developed a new microscope platform that can acquire extremely large, high-resolution pictures of non-flat objects in a single snapshot. Described in Optics Letters, ...