Do any of us know how old we are, really? In M. Night Shyamalan's 2021 horror-thriller Old, a group of tourists find themselves on a deadly private beach in a fight against time itself. For them, ...

Galaxy NGC 6822, neighbouring the Milky Way galaxy, being studied to learn more about stars and dust in the early universe. Credit: NASA/James Webb Space Telescope Galaxy NGC 6822, neighbouring the ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's ...

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly sure where these magnetic fields came from. But new research suggests they ...

The general consensus among scientists is that the universe is roughly 13.7 billion years old, and ever-expanding — a conclusion illustrated by the phenomenon called redshift, in which light becomes ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

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Rajendra Gupta proposed a cosmological model suggesting a universe significantly older (more than 10 billion years) than the ΛCDM model, primarily to account for the unexpectedly large size of early ...