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

Could the route to the stars be paved not by impossible physics, but by spacetime itself? A new warp drive model has been ...

For decades, the idea of the warp drive—an incredibly cool, incredibly hypothetical cheat code for crossing impossible distances in deep space—has mostly been the domain of sci-fi. But maybe the real ...

“Prior models required a matter-energy content that was ‘unphysical,’ meaning it had features we don’t see in the regular ...

Warp drives have a long history of not existing, despite their ubiquitous presence in science fiction. Writer John Campbell first introduced the idea in a science fiction novel called Islands of Space ...

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In a surprising paper from 2021, scientists Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire suggested that they’d nailed down a physical model for a warp drive, which flew in the face of what we’ve long thought ...