The speed of light is one of the most famous constants in physics, yet it has never been directly measured in the way most ...

The curious minds at What If explore whether humans could ever travel faster than the speed of light, investigating physics, ...

The most distant galaxies in this deep field image from the James Webb Space Telescope appear as small, faint dots—and are receding from us faster than the speed of light due to cosmic expansion. If ...

Imagine you’re in a car driving across the country watching the landscape. A tree in the distance gets closer to your car, passes right by you, then moves off again in the distance behind you. Of ...

Scientists enable excitons to surpass light to transform materials and open new advanced paths to quantum devices.

During a meeting with the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group, an internal NASA working crew dedicated to supporting missions to Mars included a pitch from Elon Musk's SpaceX to deploy Starlink ...

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When I was a teenager, I was—shockingly, I know—deeply nerdy. At a science-fiction convention, I bought a button that read, “186,282 miles/second: Not just a good idea, it’s the law.” It was poking ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still daring to test it. Some theories of quantum gravity suggest light might ...

The speed of light has been one of science’s most trusted markers of stability. For more than a century, the idea that light moves through space at a constant speed has supported some of physics’ most ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Researchers have found a way to mimic lightspeed when photographing an object. The method involves stitching together many thin “slices” of light reflecting off the object. Photography—itself a ...