Space travel at the speed of light or even faster has long been a dream of science fiction, but what if we could travel 1 light year per second? In this fascinating exploration of space travel beyond ...

Dubbing these “closed timelike geodesics” (CTGs), Ralph and Sajeendran explain in the paper: “Such a CTG would be ideal for ...

Imagine a journey where you could travel through the entire Solar System at the speed of light. In this video, we explore the incredible question of how long it would take to travel through our solar ...

If there is an absolute law in the universe, it’s that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Space is big, and ...

The idea was first hypothesized about 70 years ago. In a bizarre repercussion of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, objects traveling close to the speed of light appear flipped over. The ...

Cosmic speed limits can be a major inconvenience but they've rarely stopped science fiction in its tracks. When it comes to space travel, Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is a major ...

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 ...

Science fiction authors and readers dream of travelling at the speed of light, but Einstein tells us we can’t. You might think that’s an arbitrary rule, but [FloatHeadPhysics] shows a different way to ...

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NASA's Voyager 1 probe launched into space in 1977, shortly after the Voyager 2 probe. Since then it has continued ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...