In Star Trek, dilithium crystals — whatever those are — are critical to the operation of a starship’s warp drives. But a Texas professor thinks he can make a baby step towards a warp drive using ...

Warp drives have long lived in the realm of science fiction, but the underlying physics that inspired them is very real and surprisingly precise. As researchers probe the edges of general relativity ...

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: ...

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 ...

A look at the energy required to make a warp drive, based on the question posed in this StarTalk video.

If a warp drive explodes in deep space, will anybody hear it? Probably not, but new research suggests that humans could one day detect the ripples in spacetime such a catastrophe would create, ...

"Can a warp drive like the one in Space Battleship Yamato be realized through scientific progress?" This time, we will set ...

There’s been a lot of buzz around in the Internets lately about the possible warp drive NASA scientists are working on. A warp drive isn’t, strictly speaking, a new idea; it’s been a staple of science ...

Einstein’s general theory of relativity is a tool kit for solving problems involving gravity that connects mass and energy with deformations in spacetime. In turn, those spacetime deformations ...

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 ...

If you want to visit a distant planet, but don’t have a million years to spare, there may be a way to make it happen. Since 1994, researchers have been considering the practicality of that sci-fi ...