For decades, scientists have tried to measure how fast the universe is expanding. This expansion rate is known as the Hubble constant, and it plays a central role in understanding the history and ...

An artist's impression of a magnetar with a wobbly accretion disk. (Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully) A never-before-seen ...

We could go out with a crunch, and not a bang. Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean researchers suggests that dark ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

Instead of focusing on how fast the universe is expanding, they looked at the ages of some of the oldest stars in our galaxy. Their findings suggest the universe is about 13.6 billion years old. The ...

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