Serious Star Trek fans are familiar with the term nacelles—the long, cylindrical engines that power the Starship ...

For the first time, a group of physicists is arguing that a warp drive is not just a mathematical curiosity but something that fits within the known laws of nature. Instead of relying on exotic ...

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

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 ...

The 21st day of the annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features galaxies of varying shapes and sizes, some appearing ...

A pair of researchers at Applied Physics has created what they describe as the first general model of a warp drive, a model for a spacecraft that could travel faster than a speed of light without ...

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, ...

What comes to mind when you think of space? Imagine a friend boasting about a spacious building, stadium or museum they recently visited. Do you envision the building as vast and expansive? Is it ...

Since the pandemic began, the arrival of each new year feels like a reprise of "let's do the time warp again" from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Now, imagine if you lived in space.For those of us ...