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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 ...

"Warp drives" used by super-advanced alien civilizations may create specific space-time ripples in their wake that we can spot from Earth, a new paper argues. However, the jury is still out on whether ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On one particular Friday night in 1992, Miguel Alcubierre couldn’t stop thinking about Star Trek. For ...

What if I told you there’s a prototype German engine that could enable travel between galaxies, in futuristic spaceships that break the laws of physics with the phenomenon of “time warping”? It sounds ...

Warp drives have long lived in the realm of science fiction, but the underlying physics that inspired them is very real and surprisingly precise. As researchers probe the edges of general relativity ...

The concept of warp drives — entirely hypothetical devices that could propel spacecraft by warping the fabric of space-time — has historically been relegated to science fiction. If they could ever be ...

For most of us, traveling faster than the cosmic speed limit—the speed of light—is a science-fiction fantasy that breaks the very foundation of modern physics. But in the eyes of an engineering ...

Anyone who grew up obsessed with Star Wars will know the thrill of seeing Han Solo and Chewbacca launch the Millennium Falcon into hyperspace for the first time. In the films, hyperdrive engines allow ...

Einstein’s general theory of relativity is a tool kit for solving problems involving gravity that connects mass and energy with deformations in spacetime. In turn, those spacetime deformations ...

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but spaceships that travel at warp speed are possible, according to one top scientist. In a recent study, physicist Dr Erik Lentz outlined a way that a ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Mario Borunda, Associate Professor of Physics, ...