space - The universe is dying vs the universe is ever expanding

Both are true.

The universe is "dying" in the sense that stars eventually run out of hydrogen, and there aren't infinite amounts of hydrogen in galaxies to replace old stars. This will take a very long time, but eventually all stars will burn out and new stars will stop forming. This is what the study recently in the news is saying.

The universe is ever expanding in the sense that distances between galaxies which are not bound together gravitationally is expanding all the time. If you look at very distant galaxies, they are all receding into the distance.

Combine these two facts and the result is that the universe will become more and more "rarefied" (distances between galaxies will keep expanding), and also all existing stars in galaxies will burn out over trillions of years.