A new study has estimated the universe’s possible age by using precise data on stars.

Researchers from the University of Bologna and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) along with other institutes have proposed a new way to address the Hubble tension by comparing ...

Astronomers studying the Milky Way's oldest stars have estimated that the Universe is about 13.6 billion years old.

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest the cosmos may be much older than once believed. For decades, scientists have held that the universe is about 13.8 billion years old ...

The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about ...

Instead of focusing on how fast the universe is expanding, they looked at the ages of some of the oldest stars in our galaxy.

Astronomers have spotted what may be one of the universe’s earliest barred spiral galaxies — a striking cosmic structure forming just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, COSMOS-74706, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study challenges the idea of an ever-expanding universe. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a ...

How will the world end? While some, like Robert Frost, have waxed poetic about the end of life on Earth—fire or ice—others have been looking to science to solve the mystery. Even still, others have ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an invisible force called dark energy. But new data suggest that this is ...