Have we made an object that could travel at at least 1% the speed of light? – Anadi, age 14, Jammu and Kashmir, India Light is fast. In fact, it is the fastest thing that exists, and a law of the ...

When an object in space appears to be racing at nineteen times the speed of sound, it instantly jumps from routine data point to global headline. The claim that NASA tracked such a hyperfast visitor ...

Light is fast. In fact, it is the fastest thing that exists, and a law of the universe is that nothing can move faster than light. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second (300,000 kilometers per ...

An object spotted with help of citizen scientists was moving so fast through the Milky Way that it could escape the gravity of the galaxy and reach intergalactic space, new research has found. Likely ...

The idea was first hypothesized about 70 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In a bizarre repercussion of Albert ...

Imagine a cube flying through space at nearly the speed of light. Hard to picture? Not for the physicists at the Vienna University of Technology, who have managed to simulate exactly that in their lab ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. One of the fundamental rules we all learn in physics — set forth by ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Sam Baron, Associate professor, Australian Catholic ...