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 ...

Of all the technology devised in science fiction, the one that would be significantly beneficial to humanity is the ability ...

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 ...

In Star Trek, the crew of the Enterprise could cross galaxies in the time it takes us to fly from Delhi to Dubai. While long considered pure science fiction, the show’s most fantastical invention, the ...

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 ...

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You know that scene in the film Contact where the “Machine” is spooling up, its three spinning rings kicking out crazy light and an electromagnetic field powerful enough to pitch nearby Navy ...

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 ...

In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universe's ultimate speed limit by ...