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

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

Despite recent reports that scientists had built a real warp bubble, it looks like warp speed is still a few baby steps away. But all hope is not lost: we sat down with Dr. Harold G. "Sunny" White, ...

"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. For ...

"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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A research paper proposes a fully physically realized model for warp drive. This builds on an existing model that requires negative energy—an ...

“Scotty, I need warp speed in 3 minutes or we’re all dead.” This command by first generation “Star Trek” Captain James Kirk in the fictional 2020s is a famous line in modern science fiction. It’s the ...

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, ...

Don’t pack your bags and move to Bozeman yet. This micro-scale warp bubble won’t be capable of propulsion, but it could have myriad other applications, says its discoverer Dr. Sonny White. Space is ...

The world's first warp bubble emerged as a recent accidental discovery by DARPA-funded researchers, according to the latest report. The Limitless Space Institute (LS) team led by former NASA warp ...