We, humans, love life’s finer details. And thanks to a team at the Rijksmuseum—the Netherlands’ national arts and history museum—one of Rembrandt’s most famous paintings has now been archived in finer ...

The US Army's newest Hummingbird drone can shoot 1.8 gigapixel images that, from 20,000 feet high, cover an area of 25 square miles. The drone uses image sensor technology from DARPA in order to do ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This colorful web of wispy gas filaments is the Vela ...

If you've never had a chance to visit London, zooming around the city in the world's largest panoramic image might be the next best thing. Crave contributor Christopher MacManus regularly spends his ...

This might just look like a microscope image of some strange, small life-form. But actually its a view of a massive 281-gigapixel image of a zebrafish embryo, which can be zoomed in on to show ...

Back on Earth Day, NASA asked people around the world to submit selfies, and they got 50,000 responses. After going through them, the space agency placed 36,422 of the portraits on a 3.2 gigapixel ...

Finnish astrophotographer J.P. Metsavainio spent nearly 12 years capturing and piecing together the undulating sweep of our very own Milky Way galaxy in astonishing detail. After all those years of ...

Scientists at Duke University have developed an incredibly powerful new camera that combines dozens of lenses to capture images and video at resolutions of thousands of megapixels, in three dimensions ...

The 717 gigapixel image is viewable free on the Rijksmuseum website The 717 gigapixel image is viewable free on the Rijksmuseum website is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer ...

Researchers have developed a new type of microscope that stitches together video from 54 individual cameras and lenses. Whether recording high-speed, 3D, gigapixel movies of the behavior of dozens of ...

If you’re in Chicago, then you might want to head over to the Adler planetarium today, when they unveil an enormous 2.5 billion pixel mosaic of the Galaxy! It’s composed of 800,000 separate Spitzer ...