Physics says nothing can travel faster than light through space, and that rule still holds. However, scientists have ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

Every generation grows up with starships that jump across galaxies in a heartbeat, but the real universe is far less forgiving than the screen. The same physics that lets GPS satellites work and ...

If a report of particles traveling faster than the speed of light turns out to be true, it will rock the foundations of modern physics — and perhaps even change the way scientists think about time ...

The light echo around the star V838 Monocerotis as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in November 2005. When I was a teenager, I was—shockingly, I know—deeply nerdy. At a science-fiction convention, I ...

Relativistic physics imposes one of the most frustrating limitations predicted by science. It tells us that an inescapable speed limit exists in the universe: we can't go faster than the speed of ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Imagining travel across the immense distances in outer space required envisioning fictional methods of faster-than-light-speed travel. Whether ...