This is incredibly fast. However, light-speed can frustratingly slow if you're trying to communicate with or reach other planets, especially any worlds beyond our solar system. Read more ...

Bandwidth and latency aren't the same thing, but they both greatly impact the quality of your home internet experience.

Light travels incredibly quickly. But just how fast is it? Microwaves and light waves move at the same speed, so if you have a microwave oven, you can work out the speed of light yourself.

But how fast is fast? Solo said his ship can go .5 past light speed. In this edition of Tech+Knowledge+Y, School of Physics Associate Professor Deirdre Shoemaker explains how fast light speed really ...