In the 19th and early 20th centuries, astronomers catalogued the universe on glass photographic plates. Astronomers still study these plates, which serve as record of the sky spanning almost 100 years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the roaring ’20s, glass plates were a must for tablescapes. Today, it’s more common to see ceramic or stoneware dinnerware, ...

Over 150 glass plate photographs of the moon, stars, and solar eclipses were recently rediscovered in the basement of the the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) in Copenhagen. The moon in a collection of ...

Film certainly isn’t dead, but what about its predecessor? One Kickstarter campaign is working to revive glass-plate photography by making the medium commercially available. Galaxy Photography, a ...

Strange glass comprises the walls of a small greenhouse inside the dimly lit Brown Wing of Wilmington's Cameron Art Museum. There's a bin of flashlights there, and as viewers work their way around the ...

Stained glass as an art form has been around for more than 1,000 years but that long history does not deter artists who continue to explore new ways to use the colorful medium. And that includes one ...

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 ...