In around 5 billion years, the sun will run out of the fuel needed for nuclear fusion in its core. This will cause its inner core to collapse under the force of the sun's own gravity. At this point, ...

A long-running dispute about how fast our universe is expanding just became even more entrenched. New and more precise measurements of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the ...

The universe appears to be expanding at a staggering speed, much faster than expected. A recent study reinforces this observation, confirming an expansion that contradicts current theoretical models.

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