Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

Every generation grows up with starships that jump across galaxies in a heartbeat, but the real universe is far less forgiving than the screen. The same physics that lets GPS satellites work and ...

For more than a century the speed of light was treated as an unbreakable cosmic limit. Now physicists are revisiting that ...

For decades, the idea of “boldly going” across the stars has been confined to the flickering screens of science fiction, dismissed by many as a mathematical impossibility. But a groundbreaking new ...

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

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Imagining travel across the immense distances in outer space required envisioning fictional methods of faster-than-light-speed travel. Whether ...