Distance

Astronomers have discovered the most distant – and therefore earliest – known black hole. Hiding in a galaxy called GN-z11, this black hole is bigger than should be possible given the age of the universe.

For the first time in 30 years, new terms have been officially added to the International System of Units. The four new prefixes – ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto – describe very large and very small numbers that until now didn’t have their own names

An international team of astronomers has detected the most distant radio galaxy ever observed. By measuring the redshift of its light, the researchers determined that the object is about 12 billion light-years away, which dates it back to when the universe itself was just a kid.

At a distance of about 13 billion lightyears, the most distant supermassive black hole known so far has been spotted. That incredible distance means it dates back to when the first stars blinked on, which raises the question of how a black hole that big arose so soon after the universe began.

One of the biggest limitations of electric buses is range. Now, though, a US company has eked out over 250 miles (402 km) from one of its electric buses. The Proterra Catalyst XR is said to afford the best efficiency rating ever for a 40-ft (12-m) transit bus, at 22 mpg (12.8 l/l00 km) equivalent.

The full moon has long been associated with lunacy, violence, fertility, disasters, and the performance of the stock market. While these have been thoroughly debunked, a lunar ranging study has long contended with a "Full-Moon Curse." This Curse is real, and has now been explained.

Astronomers have used eight eclipsing binary stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud to accurately determine its distance from the Earth.

Infrared observation by the Spitzer space telescope have allowed astronomers to determine the most accurate and precise estimate to date of the Hubble constant - the rate at which our Universe is expanding.

A group of four autonomous underwater vehicles have just set a world distance record, by traveling from San Francisco to Hawaii.

Hahn Environmental CEO Allan Lear has pedaled over 1,600 km on his modified Stealth Bomber e-bike to set the longest distance traveled by an electric bike in a week.

The "Schluckspecht E" electric vehicle built by a team at the University of Applied Sciences in Offenberg, Germany has traveled a total distance of 1631.5 km (1,013.76 miles) on a single charge to

Is reality a 3D hologram of a 2D universe? This is a question that a team of researchers at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab are asking.