Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

But the Spitzer telescope's infrared vision is the keenest ever, thanks to a mirror nearly three feet (0.9 meters) across, sensitive detectors cooled almost to absolute zero, and an orbit far from ...

While the Spitzer Space Telescope might have been launched in ... Rather than operating in low Earth orbit like the Hubble Space Telescope, SIRTF would be launched into deep space.

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

The new instrument will orbit much farther from Earth (940,000 ... The group also includes the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Spitzer is an infrared orbiting telescope ...

harkening back to the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. For context, Spitzer is now over 180 million miles (289 million kilometers) from Earth. Hubble was right in our planet's orbit ...

Other telescopes, to be fair, have had infrared abilities, such as the now-retired Spitzer telescope and even the Hubble ... Then, once safe: "Each approximately 98-minute orbit allows the telescope ...

When NASA's now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope first observed Herbig-Haro ... first crewed mission in orbit over Earth's poles March 31 (UPI) -- SpaceX successfully launched Fram2, the first ...