<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Metric_expansion_of_space" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Metric_expansion_of_space</a><p>The short version: The distant object wasn&#x27;t traveling through space, it sat stationary while more space came into existence in the gap between us and it, resulting in it being farther away. This happens everywhere, all the time -- it&#x27;s what cosmologists are talking about when they say the Universe is &quot;expanding&quot;. The laws that prohibit faster-than-light travel concern movement within space (&quot;peculiar motion&quot;), not the expansion of space itself.