NASA’s decision to shut down a $1 billion infrared space telescope, even as it continued to send back spectacular images, was ...

A small space company is now selected to headline the development of a rescue program for the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope after it stopped its functions due to issues and is left drifting in space.

Its mission was only supposed to last two and a half years, but more than 16 years after launch, NASA's Spitzer telescope has shown us cosmic objects almost to the edge of the universe. Launched in ...

Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency’s four Great Observatories continues to ...

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope spied something magical: gigantic bubbles in space with stars trapped inside them. Spitzer, which observes our galaxy in infrared light, captured a new image in Aquila, ...

The U.S. Space Force wants to bring a venerable NASA space telescope out of retirement. An early-stage study seeks to resurrect the Spitzer Space Telescope, which was shut off in 2020 after 17 years ...

After 16 years of incredible discoveries, NASA's retiring Spitzer Space Telescope is going gently into that good night, slumbering against a background of stars -- the very ones it helped study. The ...

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has snapped a picture of the bits and pieces making up Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3, which is continuing to break apart on its periodic journey around the sun. The ...

Dozens of newborn stars sprouting jets from their dusty cocoons have been spotted in images from the Spitzer Space Telescope. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Wisconsin ...

NASA released fascinating images from their Spitzer Space Telescope to mark the 50th anniversary of the wildly popular cult classic "Star Trek" TV series, which first aired on Sept. 8, 1966. The ...

The Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in 2003, marking NASA's fourth and final "Great Observatory" deployment. Although Spitzer never became a household name like Hubble, it contributed greatly to ...

NASA is preparing to wrap up Spitzer's mission, but the agency isn't done showing off what the spacecraft can do. NASA has just released images of a dense stellar cluster captured by the aging ...