From science-fiction technologies like warp drives and levitation to the search for evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in ...

Humanity has spent a century turning interstellar travel into a cultural inevitability, from pulp magazines to prestige ...

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

ABB has released its ACS880 Virtual DrivePlus. This high-fidelity software-in-the-loop (SIL) system runs low-voltage drive control firmware to ensure accurate simulation of a drive’s behavior, ...

"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. Every ...

Building a warp drive is more than an energy problem; it's a physics puzzle with universe bending consequences. This video explores the cutting edge research: from NASA's scaled down energy ...

Before me is an expansive, arid landscape—a realm of valleys, chasms, and crevasses, of steep cliffs and dusty soil, framed by distant mountains. It might as well be on the moon itself, save for the ...

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 ...

Scientists have taken one more step down the very long road to time travel. A new paper combines the Alcubierre “warp” drive with the idea of “controlled closed timelike curves.” Though far out, ...

NASA is preparing to lock four people inside a simulated Martian outpost for more than a year. Yes, you heard that correctly. This is a very bold step that aims to mimic the challenges astronauts ...