It’s a bit of a truism that bigger sensors lead to better pictures when it comes to photography. Of course everyone who isn’t a photographer knows that moar megapixles is moar better. So, when ...

Scientists have built a one-gigapixel camera that has more than 30 times the data collecting capacity of today's best consumer digital devices. Gautam Naik reports on digits. Photo: Duke University.

SANTIAGO, June 5 (Reuters) - With a resolution above 3.2 gigapixels, a nearly three-ton weight and the ambitious task of carrying out an unprecedented decade-long exploration, the largest digital ...

What you see here is the core of the Milky Way, as seen by the European Space Agency's VISTA telescope. If you looked up at the center of the Milky Way with your naked eye, all of these stars, ...

Imagine a panoramic photograph with such high resolution that you could zoom in on a postage stamp more than half a mile away, or read signs that are blocks away from your vantage point. That is just ...

Gigapixel Photography Imagine a panoramic photograph with such high resolution that you could zoom in on a postage stamp more than half a mile away, or read signs that are blocks away from your ...

Engineers from Duke University and the University of Arizona have successfully synched up 98 tiny cameras to develop a single prototype camera with a resolution five times better than a person with 20 ...

The first chunk of the map created by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space mission was revealed at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, Italy. The extremely large mosaic, ...

What just happened? Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have spent the last 20 years constructing the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera. The 3,200-megapixel observatory ...

A new digital camera capable of taking images with resolutions equivalent to 50,000 megapixels has been unveiled in America. Electrical engineers from Duke University and the University of Arizona ...