It takes a beam of light a single day to travel 16.1 billion miles, a distance known as a light-day. It'll take Voyager 1, the American spacecraft moving at 10.6 miles per second, more than 49 years ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies. READ MORE: A cradle of baby stars revealed in new European space ...
This jet streaming out of a supermassive black hole is traveling at nearly the speed of light. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration Superman may fly faster than a speeding bullet, but he'd easily ...
Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light-years distant. Yet despite the odds, scientists insist that continuing the ...