Light can travel for billions of years but it has no time

Light can travel for billions of years but it has no time

A photon from a star billions of light-years away takes no time to reach a telescope. It’s not too little time. There is nothing. That result is not a measured or poetic way of speaking. It comes directly from the mathematics of special relativity, and it points to another strange thing about the nature of … Read more

Exomoons can last for billions of years, as long as they have hydrogen atmospheres

This is an artist's rendering of a habitable exomoon orbiting a giant planet. Credit: NASA GSFC/Jay Friedlander and Britt Griswold

Free-Floating Planets (FFP), also known as “Rogue Planets,” were first discovered in 2000 by astronomers searching the Orion Nebula. Since then, hundreds of FFP candidates have been identified, and scientists predict there may be billions across the Milky Way. This means they outnumber stars by 20 to 1, and habitable planets by 25 or more. … Read more