The colloquial term “warp drive” comes from science fiction, most famously Star Trek. The faster-​than-light warp drive of ...

Warp drive has long lived in the realm of starships and scriptwriters, but the equations behind it are starting to look less ...

Warp drives have long lived in the realm of science fiction, but the underlying physics that inspired them is very real and ...

Faster than light travel is the only way humans could ever get to other stars in a reasonable amount of time. Les Bossinas/NASA/Wikimedia Commons The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri. It is ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Faster-than-light travel remains a distant dream. But warp technology would be revolutionary in its own right. In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical ...

The idea of warp drive—the ability to travel faster than the speed of light—has fascinated humanity for decades. It began as a fictional concept in Star Trek and Star Wars, fueling imaginations and ...

Most of us alive today have never known a world where human spaceflight didn't exist. Yet before we walked on the Moon, had an International Space Station, sent spacecraft to all the planets and even ...

In the "Star Trek" TV shows and films, the U.S.S. Enterprise's warp engine allows the ship to move faster than light, an ability that is, as Spock would say, "highly illogical." However, there's a ...

In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universe's ultimate speed limit by ...

In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster-than-light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universe’s ultimate speed limit by ...