A light-year is the distance that light travels through a vacuum in one year. Light year(s) and lightyear(s) may also refer to:

Film and television

Buzz Lightyear, a main character in the animated film series Toy Story

• Lightyear (film), a 2022 spin-off animated film featuring the character

• Gandahar (film), a 1988 animated science fiction film known as Light Years in English

• Light Years (2015 film), a British drama film

• Light Years, an American TV series that has been renamed Life Unexpected

• Light Years, a Singaporean drama produced by Mediacorp Channel 5

Music

• Lightyear (band), ska-punk band from the United Kingdom

• Light Years (band), pop-punk band from Cleveland, Ohio

• The Lightyears, pop-rock band based in London, England

Albums

• Light Years (Chick Corea album), 1987

• Light Years, The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra, 1997 compilation album by Electric Light Orchestra

• Light Years (Glen Campbell album), 1988

• Light Years (Kylie Minogue album), 2000

• Light-Years (Nas and DJ Premier album), 2025

• Light Year, a 2021 album by Emma Stevens

• Light Years, a 2005 album by Kathy Valentine

• Light Years, a 2012 album by Kora

• Light Years, a 2014 album by Noah23 and David Klopek

• Light Years, a 2008 album by The Shore

• Lightyears, a 2014 album by David Ryan Harris

• Lightyears, a 2012 EP by Mansions on the Moon

• Lightyears, a 2007 album by Shin Terai, Bill Laswell and Buckethead

• Lightyears, a 2001 album by Sunbeam

A series of 1995 compilation albums by Christian artists, including:

• The Light Years by Allies

• The Light Years by Andraé Crouch

• The Light Years by Bryan Duncan

• The Light Years by Resurrection Band

• The Light Years by Sweet Comfort Band

• The Light Years by Walter Hawkins

Songs

• "Light Years" (Jamiroquai song), 1994

• "Light Years" (Pearl Jam song), 2000

• "Light Years", 1994 song by Heather Nova from Oyster

• "Lightyears", 1996 song by Eraserheads from Fruitcake (album)

• "Lightyear", 1997 song by Mentallo & The Fixer from Burnt Beyond Recognition

• "Light Years", 2019 song by The National from I Am Easy to Find

• "Light Year", 2018 song by The Story So Far from Proper Dose

Other uses

• Lightyear Entertainment, a movie and music distributor

• Light Years (book), a 1975 novel by James Salter

• Lightyear 0, a Dutch electric car

• Light Year, a Chinese artificial intelligence firm acquired by Meituan in 2023

• Light Years: An Investigation into the Extraterrestrial Experiences of Eduard Meier (1987), a non-fiction book by Gary Kinder

See also

• Parsec (disambiguation)

• Light (disambiguation)

• LY (disambiguation)

• Year