How do we know that the space is expanding if there is nothing to compare it to?
Also, really far-away galaxies are receding from us faster than light.
And, the existence of the cosmological event horizon seems to support this too, I think. Things beyond that horizon will emit light in our direction, but that light will never reach us. In fact, without this horizon, I believe that the night sky would be much brighter.
I find it kind of sad that, as time passes, more of the universe becomes unobservable. Eventually the only stars visible from our POV will be those in our own galaxy (and galaxies that ours has merged with, in the interim).
More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe