Science fiction has made use of the idea of a “warp drive” – a drive that could let people and ships travel through space ...

But a Texas professor thinks he can make a baby step towards a warp drive using ethylene glycol, which is commonly found in antifreeze. While superluminal travel has been regarded as impossible ...

Let’s take an outlandish example. If there were aliens flying around our galaxy with the sort of warp drive technology we often see in sci-fi shows, what would the signal from their ships look like?

In a breakthrough that could be the future of military space, researchers have taken a big leap toward developing an ...

Warp, a young payroll startup in New York, is in the spotlight following controversial posts from an account tied to the company. On Thursday, an account posting under the name Vittorio wrote on X ...

Let's do the Time Warp again! That iconic little movie that conquered the world is going on tour, this time with three of the original cast members. I know you've heard of the 1975 film Rocky ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New research "boldly goes" where physicists have never gone before, suggesting what would ...

The gotcha with detecting an FTL warp drive is that it is undetectable until it collapses in some fashion. By simulating what this collapse might look like, the researchers were able to speculate ...

New research "boldly goes" where physicists have never gone before, suggesting what would happen to the space around a failing warp drive. Science fiction fans are more than familiar with the ...

For now, however, the physicists who performed the new study, who admit to being big fans of Star Trek, have used their result to model the gravitational waves that would be emitted by a hypothetical ...

In Star Trek, an antimatter warp drive allows the Enterprise starship to travel the universe effortlessly, but is this faster-than-light propulsion system actually possible? (03:20) Explore ...

Before we start that, a question about a recent letter: Q. I read the recent letter (I’ve Had the Same Work Crush for Years) and noticed that most of the commenters wanted to talk about the fact ...