2016

• 6/2/2016 STScI-2016-17 1. NASA's Hubble Finds Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected When astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered nearly 100 years ago that the universe was uniformly expanding in all directions, the finding was a big surprise. (More)
• 3/3/2016 STScI-2016-07 2. Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance Record NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is an amazing time machine; by looking back through space, astronomers actually look back through time. Now, by pushing Hubble to its limits, an international... (More)
• 1/28/2016 STScI-2016-04 3. Monstrous Cloud Boomerangs Back to Our Galaxy The old adage "what goes up must come down" even applies to an immense cloud of hydrogen gas outside our Milky Way galaxy. First discovered in the 1960s, the comet-shaped... (More)

2015

• 12/3/2015 STScI-2015-45 4. NASA Space Telescopes See Magnified Image of the Faintest Galaxy from the Early Universe Hunting for faraway galaxies that existed long, long ago is like a fishing trip for astronomers. (More)
• 9/9/2015 STScI-2015-34 5. Hubble Uncovers Clues of Earliest Galaxies Astronomers at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) and the Space Telescope Science Institute have made the most accurate statistical estimate... (More)
• 5/5/2015 STScI-2015-22 6. Astronomers Set a New Galaxy Distance Record The universe is incredibly big. But how do astronomers know that? Billion-mile-long tape measures can't be found at the hardware store. Instead, astronomers use the expansion... (More)
• 4/9/2015 STScI-2015-11 7. Our Sun Came Late to the Milky Way's Star-Birth Party Our Sun missed the stellar "baby boom" that erupted in our young Milky Way galaxy 10 billion years ago. During that time the Milky Way was churning... (More)

2014

• 10/16/2014 STScI-2014-39 8. Hubble Finds Extremely Distant Galaxy through Cosmic Magnifying Glass Peering through a giant cosmic magnifying glass, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted one of the farthest, faintest, and smallest galaxies ever seen. (More)
• 8/27/2014 STScI-2014-37 9. NASA Telescopes Help Uncover Early Construction Phase of Giant Galaxy The birth of massive galaxies, according to galaxy formation theories, begins with the buildup of a dense, compact... (More)
• 6/3/2014 STScI-2014-27 10. Hubble Team Unveils Most Colorful View of Universe Captured by Space Telescope Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe — among the most colorful... (More)