If humanity ever wants to escape the solar system, we’re going to need a faster-than-light engine. Enter: the warp drive. While such a drive pushes the limits of known physics, a new study ponders ...

Physicists discovered that the famous ‘Star Trek’ spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

For the first time, a group of physicists has written down a warp drive concept that does not ask the universe for impossible ingredients. Instead of exotic negative energy, their design uses ordinary ...

For decades, the starship Enterprise has been shorthand for impossible speed, a sleek symbol of television fantasy rather ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This warp drive is a theoretical concept where a spacecraft travels faster than light by ...

If humanity wants to be a spacefaring species, it needs to figure out how to travel faster than the speed of light. Now, a new online toolkit — backed up by a $500,000 grant — will help engineers ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? On one particular Friday night in 1992, Miguel Alcubierre couldn’t stop thinking ...

Nearly 60 years ago, the original Star Trek series ignited a dream in the public’s imagination: that one day, people would travel the galaxy in ships propelled by faster-than-light “warp drives.” The ...

There have been some awesome inventions in the world of science fiction over the years. Whether it's the Tardis from "Dr Who" and its miraculous traveling abilities or the teleporting talents of the ...