The concept of a warp drive has become a cultural icon ever since Star Trek's Captain Kirk said, "Warp Drive, Mr. Scott," to initiate faster-than-light travel for the Starship Enterprise.

Serious Star Trek fans are familiar with the term nacelles—the long, cylindrical engines that power the Starship ...

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 ...

Physicists discovered that the famous 'Star Trek' spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to galaxy.

Recent research has brought new life to the concept of traveling faster than the speed of light, a technology once confined to the realms of science fiction, particularly popularized as “warp drive” ...

Warp drive has long been shorthand for “pure fantasy,” a narrative device that lets starships hop between stars without ...

Warp drive has quietly shifted from pure fantasy to a live topic in serious physics, with new models showing how spacetime ...

Groundbreaking new research has discovered a means by which a constant velocity warp drive could be possible without the need for exotic particles or negative energy. Without the fictional idea of a ...

For decades, the concept of faster-than-light travel has fueled the imaginations of science fiction enthusiasts, with Star Trek's warp drive standing as a prominent example. But could this fantastical ...