Environmental NASA’s Hubble Rules Out One Alternative to Dark Energy by Gary Kopycinski on March 14, 2011 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Environmental: People Outside Will Be Injured: Severe Thunderstorms Strike Park Forest March 31, 2026 Park Forest Officials Urge Residents to Protect Pipes as Coldest Air of the Season Continues December 14, 2025 Park Forest Workshops Join Global Effort to Prevent Bird Collisions August 21, 2025 WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 14, 2011. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have ruled out an alternate theory on the nature of dark energy after recalculating the expansion rate of the universe to unprecedented accuracy.