2010 (continued)

• 4/22/2010 STScI-2010-13 21. Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Awe and Discovery NASA's best-recognized, longest-lived, and most prolific space observatory zooms past a threshold of 20 years of operation this month. (More)
• 4/6/2010 STScI-2010-03 22. Small Companion to Brown Dwarf Challenges Simple Definition As our telescopes grow more powerful, astronomers are uncovering objects that defy conventional wisdom. This latest example is the discovery of a planet-like... (More)

2009

• 9/9/2009 STScI-2009-25 23. 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)
• 6/25/2009 STScI-2009-22 24. STScI Joins the Search for Other Earths in Space The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., is partnering on a historic search for Earth-size planets around other stars. (More)
• 4/1/2009 STScI-2009-15 25. Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet in Archival Data In 19 years of observations, the Hubble Space Telescope has amassed a huge archive of data. That archive may contain the telltale glow of undiscovered extrasolar planets... (More)
• 3/22/2009 STScI-2009-13 26. Hubble Uncovers an Unusual Stellar Progenitor to a Supernova Astronomers have detailed theories about what type of stars self-destruct in titanic supernova explosions. However, it would be useful to test stellar... (More)
• 1/7/2009 STScI-2009-03 27. Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic' Resembling comets streaking across the sky, these four speedy stars are plowing through regions of dense interstellar gas and creating brilliant arrowhead structures and trailing... (More)
• 1/6/2009 STScI-2009-04 28. Star Light, Star Bright, Its Explanation is Out of Sight This pair of NASA Hubble Space Telescope pictures shows the appearance of a mysterious burst of light that was detected on February 21, 2006, brightened... (More)
• 1/5/2009 STScI-2009-01 29. Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on studies of nearby multiple-star systems... (More)

2008

• 12/9/2008 STScI-2008-41 30. Hubble Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar Planet NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This is an important step along the trail of finding... (More)