In the same way that two cars driving away from each other at 60 mph have relative speeds of 120 mph with regard to each other, two bodies moving away from each other at less than the speed of light have relative speeds exceeding it. Everything in the universe is moving away from everything else and sometimes at relative speeds that exceed the speed of light. Nothing is individually exceeding the speed of light in absolute terms.

I remember finding out the shape of space isn't a vast plane of emptiness, but more of an ever growing sphere and that messed me up.

The universe is mostly nothing. So obviously the universe, being nothing, expanding faster than the speed of light isn't surprising, as nothing is faster than light. 😌

besides the expansion of spacetime which is the correct answer, there's also nothing keeping two objects from traveling in opposite vectors each at 60% c. Frame of reference matters too

Explanations why space expands are way more crazier than this.

Wrong, the expansion doesn't have a speed because it isn't motion. But you have to think about it longer than you'll probably want to before hitting the up or down arrow and/or scrolling.

Preemptive explanatory note: the speed of light, approximately 300,000 km per second, is the highest speed that something can move through space.

The expansion of space doesn't happen at a set speed. It happens at a rate of approximately 70 km per second per megaparsec. So if you're measuring two points half a megaparsec away from each other, then every second, the space between them grows by about 35 km. If you're measuring two points 2 megaparsecs away from each other, then every second, the space between them grows by about 140 km.

If you're measuring two points 4300 megaparsecs away from each other, then the spacetime between them grows by about 300,000 km every second. That's not to say that anything is moving at 300,000 km per second, there's just more space between them every second

Take a balloon.

Blow it upto about 50mm

Make a couple dots around it

Blow it up a little more.

Now there's distance between the dots.

Imagine an ant walking between the dots. That ant is going at the speed of light (as fast as it can go) relative to the dots.

Now as it walks between the dots, blow the balloon up really big

The dots aren't moving, they're stuck to the surface of the balloon. The balloon itself is expanding. The ant is going at the speed of ant-light, but now the dots are all "moving away" faster than the ant can walk.

The speed of the ant hasn't changed, the space the ant is traveling has changed. And faster than the ant can move, because the balloon isn't limited by the same things the ant is.

Nothing within the known universe moves faster then light, but the universe itself expands faster then light travels within it.

Well, nothing (with nonnegative mass) can move faster than light through space. Space itself can do whatever it wants to.