A novel theory suggests that the current expansion rate of the universe is not fixed, but was in fact quite different in the ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to look back in time and study galaxies that existed shortly after the Big Bang. In so doing, scientists hoped to gain a better understanding of how ...
Kanazawa, Japan - The expansion of the Universe has occupied the minds of astronomers and astrophysicists for decades. Among the cosmological models that have been suggested over the years, Lambda ...
CALABASAS, Calif., March 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- For decades, the Standard Cosmological Model has operated on a single, foundational assumption: the Big Bang happened everywhere at exactly the same ...
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Cosmologist explains how the oldest Milky Way stars gave away the age of the universe
Elena Tomasetti of the University of Bologna discusses her team's calculation of the estimated age of the universe in an exclusive interview with Starlust.
It's hard to get a sense of the scale of the universe from our little corner of it, but scientists realized decades back that the universe is expanding. This naturally led to questions about the ...
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How old is the universe? The oldest known stars may hold the answer scientists have been searching for
A new study has estimated the universe’s possible age by using precise data on stars.
David Wiltshire received funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand, most recently a Catalyst Seeding Grant. With previous Marsden funding, he developed the first detailed observational tests of ...
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