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NASA has streamed a high definiton video of a cat from deep space to Earth -- a distance of almost 20 million miles away -- using laser technology.

A photographer's timelapse of a kitten growing into a cat has gone viral on TikTok racking up over 21 million views.

The Library of Congress has gleefully released this "freshly digitized" 1936 photo of a cat dressed as the Valkyrie Brünnhilde from the opera Der Ring des Nibelungen as free to use.

A woman created an artificially intelligent (AI) infrared camera rig using a Rasberry Pi to monitor her cat's poop after she discovered it was eating plastic.

Cat photos have always been popular on the Internet, but there is a new kitten stealing hearts on Instagram that looks different from all the rest. Meet Midas, a four-month-old kitten that has four ears.

Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!

Getting the perfect portrait of your pooch or cat looking into your camera can be challenging. Pets aren’t the most patient models, but a Los Angeles-based company called Paw Champs has found a way to make them hold a pose for a few moments longer.

This digital contact sheet is what you get when you're doing a high school portrait photography project, but your only friend is a cat.

The British company Bullitt yesterday announced its new Cat S60 rugged smartphone, the world's first to feature a built-in thermal imaging camera. The product is essentially a fusion between Bullitt's Cat smartphones and FLIR's thermal camera technology.

Manny is a gray tabby cat that's attracting attention for his special camera skills. More specifically, Manny is quite skilled at shooting selfies of himself, and now tens of thousands of people are following his photos on Instagram.

Photographer Shaina Fishman and stylist Ryen Blaschke recently collaborated on a project to help rescue cats get adopted. The lighthearted series "Cats in Hats" features shelter cats and kittens wearing Halloween hats and accessories fashioned by Blaschke.

Larry Johnson is a Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based photographer who specializes in cat portraits. He has photographed animals for over 20 years now. These days, in any given year, Johnson travels to over 35 major cities around the world to capture feline portraits at major cat shows.

Director Mark Zemel followed Johnson around for a weekend earlier this year during the cat show in Parsippany, New Jersey. What resulted was "The Purrtraitist," the 10-minute film above that provides a look at Johnson's life and work.

Here’s a daily dose of cuteness: Renowned Japanese wildlife photographer Mitsuaki Iwagō recently …

If you've always dreamed of seeing your cat share photos of its life on Instagram, there's now a camera being developed that may make your dream a reality. It's called Catstacam, and is a wearable collar camera that automatically posts photographs to an Instagram account you set up for your cat.

Editor's Note: Turn your volume way down before you click play. The video gets very loud very soon after it starts and we wouldn't want your boss knowing your watching cat videos at work... you're welcome.

There are a lot of POV videos out there of humans doing incredible stunts or getting into all sorts of scary trouble, but we don't really have much similar footage from the animal kingdom. Maybe it's because GoPro hasn't announced their Cat Fancy mount (yet?).

Fortunately, for those who do want to see what trouble their feline friends get into, there's something called a collar camera. And the video above was captured on just such a device. It's a very literal cat fight captured from the cat's point of view.

It's a sad day for the Internet... according to Trend Micro's security analysts, it's been discovered that photographs of both sunsets and -- even more heartbreaking -- cats being shared across the web contain malware capable of getting into your bank accounts.

There is no shortage of your typical cat photo online, but photographer Arne Svenson's series Strays isn't exactly typical. Instead of cute photos of cute cats doing cute things in cute ways (enough cutes?) he photographed kittens turning away, looking up, walking away and otherwise doing their best to keep you from seeing their faces.

This is awesome: someone over at the Chicago Tribune made a hilarious mistake this morning, accidentally publishing a placeholder …

Here's a little something that might help start off your work day with a smile, or perhaps an "aww." This video above is a mock movie trailer put together by Fresno, CA firefighter Cory Kalanick using footage he captured of a kitten rescue and resuscitation he performed last month.

Andy Prokh of Saint Petersburg, Russia spends his days working as an economist, but its his passion for photography that has garnered him international attention on the Internet as of late. Prokh has been shooting photographs of his four year old daughter Catherine spending time with his six-year-old British shorthaired tomcat Lilu. The photographs capture the friendship the two family members have after having spent most of their lives together under one roof.

We've written a couple of times in the past on how you can achieve drastically different portrait looks by choosing different lens focal lengths and subject distances. Basically, your choice of glass can make a huge impact on what your subject's face looks like... and how much they appear to weigh.

Reddit user Popocuffs wanted to demonstrate this, but instead of using a human subject, he used his cat.

You know those carnival cutouts that let you stick your face in a hole for humorous photographs? A Chinese blogger named toshiya86 had the brilliant idea of creating these cutouts for her beloved cat Guagua's birthday. Humorous portraits resulted.

A couple years ago we reported on the amazing fact that chickens have image stabilized heads, and shared some interesting "research" into using chickens as camera stabilizers. It turns out birds aren't the only creatures with IS systems built into their hardware: cats have it too!

How’s this for a unique pet photograph? Angelo DeSantis of Berkeley, CA was …

It’s finally happened — companies are starting to realize that the two lenses on 3D cameras look a whole …

What if in the future, the human eye itself could be turned into a camera by simply reading and recording the data that it sends to the brain? As crazy as it sounds, researchers have already accomplished this at a very basic level.

Judging from the strange novelty products coming out of Japan, there’s apparently a huge population of people there who …

Did you know that flatbed scanners make fun portrait cameras as well? Just place your cat on the glass, do a quick scan, and you'll have a strange looking portrait shot from below! Apparently this is pretty popular among cat lovers -- a Flickr search for "cat scanner" returns thousands of results! This gives "cat scan" a whole new meaning!

The Necono Digital Camera is a funky cat-shaped digital camera out of Japan that might make it easier for you to take smiling baby photos. It's a 3 megapixel camera that doesn't have any LCD screen embedded for you to review your shots -- you have to connect it to a "Monitor Ground" base that includes an LCD or transfer the images to your computer via USB. The cat has a shutter button on its butt, the camera and a self-timer LED in its eyes, and magnetic feet that allow you to stick it in random places.

Like many novelty cameras, the Necono doesn't exactly come cheap... It'll run you a whopping ¥15,750 ($192). At least you can be the only one among your friends to take pictures with a cat.

Animal Planet recently featured Cooper the Photographer Cat, who is apparently becoming a pretty big deal. Cooper …

Back in August 2010, Friskies selected 25 cats around the country and gave …

Here's one of those "I could do that! Yeah, but you didn't" things: a cat named Cooper recently published a book filled with his photographs, titled "Cat Cam". Basically, a couple named Michael and Deirdre Cross decided to attach a micro camera to their cat's collar, automatically snapping photographs every two minutes. The book has received pretty positive reviews from both critics (Good Morning America, People Magazine, etc...) and customers.