2012

• 2/17/2012 STScI-2012-11 1. NASA's Hubble Spots a Relic from a Shredded Galaxy Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope may have found evidence for a cluster of young, blue stars encircling HLX-1, one of the first intermediate-mass... (More)
• 2/2/2012 STScI-2012-08 2. Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy A team of astronomers aimed Hubble at one of the most striking examples of gravitational lensing, a nearly 90-degree arc of light in the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623. (More)
• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-07 3. The Milky Way Contains at Least 100 Billion Planets According to Survey Our Milky Way galaxy contains a minimum of 100 billion planets according to a detailed statistical study based on the detection of three extrasolar... (More)

2011

• 10/13/2011 STScI-2011-25 4. Ambitious Hubble Survey Obtaining New Dark Matter Census Cluster MACS J1206.2-0847 (or MACS 1206 for short) is one of the first targets in a Hubble Space Telescope survey that will allow astronomers to construct... (More)
• 10/4/2011 STScI-2011-33 5. 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 6. 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)
• 6/22/2011 STScI-2011-17 7. Pandora's Cluster – Clash of the Titans A team of scientists studying the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, have pieced together the cluster's complex and violent history using telescopes... (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)
• 4/7/2011 STScI-2011-10 9. NASA Telescopes Join Forces to Observe Unprecedented Explosion NASA's Swift satellite, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to study one of the most puzzling cosmic blasts ever observed. (More)

2010

• 11/11/2010 STScI-2010-37 10. Detailed Dark Matter Map Yields Clues to Galaxy Cluster Growth Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope received a boost from a cosmic magnifying glass to construct one of the sharpest... (More)
• 8/19/2010 STScI-2010-26 11. First Use of Cosmic Lens to Probe Dark Energy An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has devised a new method for measuring perhaps the greatest puzzle of our universe... (More)
• 5/25/2010 STScI-2010-18 12. Supermassive Black Holes May Frequently Roam Galaxy Centers A team of astronomy researchers at Florida Institute of Technology and Rochester Institute of Technology in the United States and University... (More)

2009

• 9/9/2009 STScI-2009-25 13. 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)
• 8/5/2009 STScI-2009-24 14. Astronomers Find Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Universe Even some galaxies may have been hyperactive youngsters. Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions... (More)
• 5/7/2009 STScI-2009-08 15. 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

• 8/27/2008 STScI-2008-32 16. A Clash of Clusters Provides New Clue to Dark Matter A powerful collision of galaxy clusters has been captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The observations of the cluster... (More)
• 4/10/2008 STScI-2008-17 17. Hubble Pinpoints Record-Breaking Explosion Peering across 7.5 billion light-years and halfway back to the Big Bang, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the fading optical counterpart of a powerful... (More)
• 2/19/2008 STScI-2008-09 18. 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)
• 2/12/2008 STScI-2008-08 19. Astronomers Find One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Early Universe NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," have uncovered what may be one of the youngest... (More)
• 1/10/2008 STScI-2008-04 20. Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring... (More)