The Totally Insane, Highly Improbable, But Not At All Impossible Quest to Build a Warp Drive

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...
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New Warp-Drive Propulsion Concept Moves Fictional Starships Closer to Engineering Reality

A new warp-drive study proposes a novel segmented design that brings hyper-fast space travel one step closer to becoming a ...

Scientists announce a physical warp drive is now possible. Seriously.

The colloquial term “warp drive” comes from science fiction, most famously Star Trek. The faster-than-light warp drive of the ...
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Warp drives could allow time travel and NASA is studying them

Warp drives have long lived in the realm of science fiction, but the underlying physics that inspired them is very real and ...