“If you wanted to take a picture of the rocket as it flew past, you would have to take into account that the light from ...
Scientists for the first time managed to simulate what objects moving near the speed of light looked like, in an optical ...
Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...
So, you’re driving a car at half the speed of light. (Both hands on the wheel, please.) You turn on the headlights. How fast would you see this light traveling? What about a person standing by the ...
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 ...
The enigmatic interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS recently passed Mars, observed by orbiting spacecraft. Despite being invisible from Earth, early analyses hint NASA's Perseverance rover might have already ...
For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical ...