I'm sure many readers of Universe Today are, like me, fans of the science fiction genre. From the light sabers of "Star Wars" to the neuralyzer of "Men in Black," science fiction has crazy inventions ...

Imagine stepping aboard a spaceship capable of traveling faster than light. Instead of spending months reaching Mars or ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Faster-than-light travel remains a distant dream. But warp technology would be revolutionary in its own right. In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical ...

In the "Star Trek" TV shows and films, the U.S.S. Enterprise's warp engine allows the ship to move faster than light, an ability that is, as Spock would say, "highly illogical." However, there's a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Faster than light travel is the only way humans could ever get to other stars in a reasonable amount of time. Les ...

There is no evidence that aliens are flying around the galaxy in starships powered by faster-than-light warp drives – but if they were, we could detect such a ship breaking down using our current ...

Is humanity close to making interstellar spaceflight a possibility, even within some of our own lifetimes? It certainly seems so as new breakthroughs in warp drive designs warrant further ...

The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri. It is about 4.25 light-years away, or about 25 trillion miles (40 trillion km). The fastest ever spacecraft, the now- in-space Parker Solar Probe will ...