NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope launched in 2003 on a mission to study the universe in the infrared. Its mission will come to an end on Jan. 30, 2020, after 16 years of amazing images and ...

This NASA Spitzer Space Telescope image released in Jan. 2005 shows an infrared view of the Trifid Nebula, a giant star-forming cloud of gas and dust located 5,400 light-years away in the ...

NASA calls Lyman Spitzer Jr. (1914-1997) one of the 20th century's greatest scientists. The longtime Princeton astrophysicist lobbied for a large space telescope as early as 1946, work that ...

The Spitzer Space Telescope, ... NASA has released a stunning pair of images taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope, an instrument the agency will be shutting down on Jan. 30, 2020.

After 16 years, NASA said goodbye to one of its great space observatories—the Spitzer Space Telescope. Last week, NASA downloaded the last bits of data and put the spacecraft into hibernation.

The Spitzer Space Telescope turned 16 earlier this week, and now that Friday has come at last, it's time to celebrate Spitzer's Sweet 16 in style.

After studying the cosmos for 16 years, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope will shut down Thursday after mission officials send the observatory its final command.

(Another space telescope, Fermi, replaced it in 2008.) But Spitzer and Chandra are still up—way up—and running, unlocking secrets of the universe and surpassing the hopes of the people who ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has proven to be one of the most powerful tools in the ...

This background image of the region around supernova remnant Cassiopeia A was released by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2008. By taking multiple images of this region over three years with ...

Infrared data from NASA’s now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope (shown in red, green, and blue) as also included. Cartwheel Galaxy The Cartwheel Galaxy as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope ...