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, ...

On June 28, the Yerkes Future Foundation (YFF), the nonprofit that has operated Yerkes Observatory since 2020, finalized the legal transfer of the site’s massive astronomical glass plate collection ...

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 ...

A photographic plate of the 1919 total solar eclipse, taken by Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin and Charles Rundle Davidson during an expedition to Sobral, Brazil. The 1919 eclipse was used by ...

You never know what new discoveries might be hiding in old astronomical observations. For almost a hundred years starting in the late 19th century, emulsion-coated dry glass plate photography was the ...

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3,500 films or 1.75 million songs can be stored on a single, small glass disk. Microsoft is currently developing the data storage of the future. Much more durable and uncomplicated than any hard disk.