A cluster of recent theoretical papers has laid out mathematical frameworks for propelling spacecraft at speeds ranging from ...

Casimir cavities are mysterious spaces between microscopic metal plates in a vacuum. Areas of diminished energy between the plates cause them to push toward each other, as if trying to fill the ...

A team of physicists led by Jared Fuchs at the University of Alabama in Huntsville has produced a peer-reviewed warp drive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new model brings Star Trek’s warp drive concept closer to real-world physics than ever before. | ©Image Credit: Paramount Global ...

You know that scene in the film Contact where the “Machine” is spooling up, its three spinning rings kicking out crazy light and an electromagnetic field powerful enough to pitch nearby Navy ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope observed signals that moved faster than the speed of light. Does this mean that faster-than-light travel is real? If not, what ...

A research paper proposes a fully physically realized model for warp drive. This builds on an existing model that requires negative energy—an impossibility. The new model is exciting, but warp speed ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Imagining travel across the immense distances in outer space required envisioning fictional methods of faster-than-light-speed travel. Whether ...