Since its launch in August 2003, says Robert Kennicutt, an astronomer at the University of Arizona, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope "has opened up half the universe to us." In the process ...

This artist concept depicts a reconstruction of what the Firefly Sparkle galaxy looked like about 600 million years after the big bang if it wasn’t stretched and distorted by a natural effect known as ...

In this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, "cometary knots" on the Helix Nebula show blue-green heads caused by excitation of their molecular material from shocks or ultraviolet ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team has developed a deep learning model that uses AI image recognition to ...

Nasa’s infrared Spitzer Space Telescope discovered several rocky exoplanets orbiting a star known as TRAPPIST-1. But ...

The Hubble is just one of NASA's orbiting "great observatories." The group also includes the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Spitzer is an infrared orbiting ...

This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows an infrared view of a sky area in the constellation Ursa Major. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

In late February, if all goes to plan, a new character will enter NASA's space telescope epic ... eyes on the sky — like the now-retired Spitzer Telescope, and even Hubble has some ...

Interstellar dust blocks the visible light emitted by the region, but it is revealed in this image by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope which captures infrared light that can penetrate dust clouds.

This work is based (in part) on observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under NASA contract ...