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Astrophysicist Adam Riess Wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

October 04, 2011Release ID: 2011-33 Missions: STScI

Adam Riess, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, today was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize...
Refined Hubble Constant Narrows Possible Explanations for Dark Energy

May 07, 2009Release ID: 2009-08 Missions: Hubble

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 the universe must be static. But to keep the universe from colla...
Hubble Finds Evidence for Dark Energy in the Young Universe

November 16, 2006Release ID: 2006-52 Missions: Hubble

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that dark energy is not a new constituent of space, but rather has been present for most of the universe's history. Dark energy is a mysterious repulsive...
New Clues About the Nature of Dark Energy: Einstein May Have Been Right After All

February 20, 2004Release ID: 2004-12 Missions: Hubble

The good news from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is that Einstein was right – maybe. A strange form of energy called "dark energy" is looking a little more like the repulsive force that Einstein theorized in an attempt...
Blast from the Past: Farthest Supernova Ever Seen Sheds Light on Dark Universe

April 02, 2001Release ID: 2001-09 Missions: Hubble

Gazing to the far reaches of space and time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope identified the farthest stellar explosion ever seen, a supernova that erupted 10 billion years ago. By examining the glow from this dying...