The speed of light is a fundamental constant, approximately 299,792,458 meters per second. It's the same for all observers and hasn't changed measurably over billions of years. Nothing can travel ...

NORFOLK, Va. — A light year is exactly what it sounds like: the distance light travels in one year. If you need to get somewhere quick, you'd want to jump on this train because light travels through ...

What you see in the night sky is not always reality. There are many illusions up there. Whenever you gaze upon the starry sky you do not see the stars in real-time. You’re actually staring into the ...

My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego backyard, was pointed at a galaxy unfathomably far from Earth. My wife, Cristina, walked up just as the first space photo ...

Can we turn back time? Ask a savvy physicist, and the answer will be “it depends.” Schemes for retrograde time travel abound but usually involve irreconcilable paradoxes and rely on outlandish ...

Researchers have pushed light control into a regime that used to belong strictly to theory, steering optical waves at the nanoscale with a precision that sets a new performance record. By shaping how ...