A series of new animations by a NASA scientist show just how zippy — and also how torturously slow — the speed of light can be. Light speed is the fastest that any material object can travel ...

Cosmic speed limits can be ... to space travel, Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is a major inconvenience. With the laws of physics (currently) prohibiting faster-than-light travel ...

It travels as a transverse wave. Unlike a sound waves, light waves do not need a medium to pass through, they can travel through a vacuum. Light from the Sun reaches Earth through the vacuum of space.