"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 ...

Warp drive has long lived in science fiction, but physicists now treat it as a real, if deeply uncertain, question. The idea ...

In Omaha, Neb.—a mere 263 miles from the (future) birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk—a dedicated Star Trek fan and adjunct science professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha is attempting to ...

Humans are one (small) step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds.

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 ...

Researchers just announced the creation of a new kind of simulated black hole. The “black hole” is made primarily out of sound waves and glycerin, and bends light in the same ways that the intense ...

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 ...

A recent study has sparked excitement in the scientific community, suggesting that warp drives, a staple of science fiction, could actually be possible. Published in the journal Classical and Quantum ...

Warp drive has long been a narrative shortcut for science fiction, but a new generation of physicists is treating it as a serious, if distant, engineering problem. Instead of asking whether ...

David Pares points to the Faraday cage that he uses in his warp drive experiments in the garage of his Aksarben-area home. David Pares believes he has the makings of a warp drive right here in his ...

If humanity unlocked the secret of warp travel, such a journey could last minutes or even seconds. When he theorized the working warp drive model, Alcubierre used Einstein’s field equations, formulas ...