Physicists are quietly rewriting the rulebook for how we might cross the gulf between stars, not by bolting bigger rockets to launch pads but by probing the strange limits of quantum theory. A new ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On one particular Friday night in 1992, Miguel Alcubierre couldn’t stop thinking about Star Trek. For ...

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 ...