Warp drive has long lived in science fiction, but physicists now treat it as a real, if deeply uncertain, question. The idea ...
Humans are one (small) step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds.
Inspired by Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek, physicist Miguel Alcubierre set out to transform one of the cornerstones of science fiction iconography, the Warp Drive, into reality. But is it even possible ...
Andromeda, our nearest major galaxy, is 2.573 million light years away. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second, so a light year is 5.88 trillion miles. Unless we dramatically step up our game, ...