2012

• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-02 1. NASA's Hubble Breaks New Ground with Distant Supernova Discovery NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a distant Type Ia supernova, the farthest stellar explosion that can be used to measure the expansion... (More)
• 1/10/2012 STScI-2012-05 2. Hubble Pinpoints Farthest Protocluster of Galaxies Ever Seen NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of construction — the most distant such grouping ever observed... (More)

2011

• 12/21/2011 STScI-2011-42 3. Distant Galaxy Bursts with Stars One of the most distant galaxies known, called GN-108036, dates back to 750 million years after the Big Bang that created our universe. The galaxy's light took 12.9 billion... (More)
• 11/10/2011 STScI-2011-31 4. Hubble Uncovers Tiny Galaxies Bursting with Star Birth in Early Universe Using its near-infrared vision to peer 9 billion years back in time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered an extraordinary population... (More)
• 11/9/2011 STScI-2011-36 5. Was the Real Discovery of the Expanding Universe Lost in Translation? Writing in the Nov. 10 issue of the journal Nature, Space Telescope Science Institute astrophysicist Mario Livio solves the mystery of why paragraphs... (More)
• 10/4/2011 STScI-2011-33 6. Astrophysicist Adam Riess Wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Adam Riess, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University... (More)
• 9/15/2011 STScI-2011-27 7. Even Low-Mass Galaxies Can Harbor Supermassive Black Holes Using the slitless grism on Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 to probe the distant universe, astronomers have found supermassive black holes growing... (More)
• 4/12/2011 STScI-2011-12 8. NASA Telescopes Help Discover Surprisingly Young Galaxy Astronomers have uncovered one of the youngest galaxies in the distant universe, with stars that formed 13.5 billion years ago, a mere 200 million years after the Big Bang. (More)
• 1/26/2011 STScI-2011-05 9. NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe How far is far? And, when do you know when you get there? This is not a Dr. Seuss riddle, but the ultimate "final frontier" confronting astronomers. (More)
• 1/12/2011 STScI-2011-04 10. In Deep Galaxy Surveys, Astronomers Get a Boost -- from Gravity Astronomers are finding that the idiom "can't see the forest for the trees" applies to the universe of galaxies as well. In a paper published... (More)

2010

• 10/7/2010 STScI-2010-31 11. Hubble Astronomers Uncover an Overheated Early Universe If you think global warming is bad, 11 billion years ago the entire universe underwent, well, universal warming. The consequence was that fierce blasts of radiation... (More)
• 1/5/2010 STScI-2010-02 12. Hubble Reaches the "Undiscovered Country" of Primeval Galaxies NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies and uncovered a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies... (More)
• 1/5/2010 STScI-2010-01 13. Galaxy History Revealed in This Colorful Hubble View More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this unprecedented, panoramic, full-color view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. (More)

2009

• 12/8/2009 STScI-2009-31 14. Hubble's Deepest View of Universe Unveils Never-Before-Seen Galaxies NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made the deepest image of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies... (More)
• 9/9/2009 STScI-2009-25 15. Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. (More)
• 5/7/2009 STScI-2009-08 16. Refined Hubble Constant Narrows Possible Explanations for Dark Energy Less than 100 years ago scientists didn't know if the universe was coming or going, literally. It even fooled the great mind of Albert Einstein. He assumed... (More)

2008

• 7/29/2008 STScI-2008-29 17. Barred Spiral Galaxies Are Latecomers to the Universe In a landmark study of more than 2,000 spiral galaxies from the largest galaxy census conducted by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers found that so-called... (More)
• 5/20/2008 STScI-2008-20 18. Hubble Survey Finds Missing Matter, Probes Intergalactic Web In the May 20 issue of The Astrophysical Journal, Charles Danforth and Mike Shull (University of Colorado, Boulder) report on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
• 4/29/2008 STScI-2008-15 19. Compact Galaxies in Early Universe Pack a Big Punch Imagine receiving an announcement touting the birth of a baby 20 inches long and weighing 180 pounds. After reading this puzzling message, you would immediately... (More)
• 2/19/2008 STScI-2008-09 20. Hubble Discovers 67 New Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies in the Distant Universe Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have compiled a large catalog of gravitational lenses in the distant universe. The catalog contains... (More)