This document summarizes recent research that more accurately measured the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) galaxy. A team called the Araucaria Project measured the distances to eight eclipsing binary stars in the LMC to determine a distance of 49.3 ± 0.5 kiloparsecs, which is accurate to 2.2%. This more precise measurement of the distance to the LMC will help astronomers better determine distances to more distant galaxies and improve our understanding of properties like dark energy. The new measurement is consistent with but more accurate than previous estimates, addressing issues with prior discrepancies in LMC distance measurements.