An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be straightforward. Objects are still emitting light, and that light takes time to travel ...

Physicists have experimentally confirmed a strange prediction: the dark “holes” inside light waves can appear to move faster than light itself. But Einstein’s laws still stand as darkness isn’t a ...

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 ...