Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warp drive could reshape interstellar travel, but negative energy, instability, and causality still stand in the way. (CREDIT: ...

Is traveling faster than the speed of light possible? This episode breaks down the science behind the warp drive, a concept popularized by Star Trek. Discover the Alcubierre drive theory and what it ...

Warp drive has long lived in science fiction, but physicists now treat it as a real, if deeply uncertain, question. The idea could shorten interstellar travel dramatically, yet every proposed path ...

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 ...

A group of physicists has unveiled a new warp-drive model that conforms to conventional energy constraints, indicating the concept long relegated to science fiction may be inching toward viability.

Somehow, we all know how a warp drive works. You're in your spaceship and you need to get to another star. So you press a button or flip a switch or pull a lever and your ship just goes fast. Like ...

Jumping from star system to star system with the push of a spacecraft’s warp drive throttle is a kind of Star Trek-inspired future tech that has very little in common with space travel of today.

Warp drive is having a moment. Just last week, scientists dropped a bombshell when they unveiled the first physical model for a warp drive, the holy grail of space travel that would allow us to bend ...

The picture depicted above is not some secret NASA project built in the recesses of the dark side of the moon, but the brainchild of concept artist Mark Rademaker, who designed what could be the first ...

This week, researchers reported on the implications of a warp drive containment breach in case you're interested in theoretical space-borne disasters. Scientists in the U.K. report the cardiovascular ...

The dream of faster-than-light travel has been on the mind of humanity for generations. Until recently, though, it was restricted to the realm of pure science fiction. Theoretical mechanisms for warp ...