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)

2011

• 10/27/2011 STScI-2011-30 2. Astronomers Pin Down Galaxy Collision Rate A new analysis of Hubble surveys, including the All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS), the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS), and the Great Observatories... (More)
• 9/15/2011 STScI-2011-27 3. 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)
• 1/26/2011 STScI-2011-05 4. 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 5. 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

• 1/5/2010 STScI-2010-02 6. 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)

2009

• 12/8/2009 STScI-2009-31 7. 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)

2007

• 5/7/2007 STScI-2007-21 8. Institute Educator Will Lead Workshop for British Queen Queen Elizabeth II will learn about NASA education tomorrow, May 8, when she visits NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Bonnie Eisenhamer... (More)

2006

• 9/21/2006 STScI-2006-12 9. NASA's Hubble Finds Hundreds of Young Galaxies in Early Universe Astronomers analyzing two of the deepest views of the cosmos made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a gold mine of galaxies... (More)
• 9/13/2006 STScI-2006-44 10. Tracing the Evolution of the First Galaxies in the Universe A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies... (More)