Faster-than-light drives use element zero cores to reduce the mass of a starship, allowing higher rates of acceleration. In special relativity, an object approaching light speed effectively gains mass ...

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

When it comes to space travel, Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is a major inconvenience. With the laws of physics (currently) prohibiting faster-than-light travel, velocities are limited to a ...

What was once pure science fiction is edging toward scientific possibility. Researchers worldwide are exploring warp drive ...

The idea of traveling faster than the speed of light (FTL) has been a popular idea long before [Alcubierre] came up with the first plausible theoretical underpinnings for such a technology. Yet even ...

The world of science fiction is filled with countless spaceships, many of which can travel faster than the speed of light. This is a necessary conceit in sci-fi, though it goes against Einstein's ...

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 ...

Back in the prehistoric days of theoretical astrophysics (1985), in a mystical and exotic corner of planet Earth (Fresno, California), a man sat in the back of a car and tried to break the spacetime ...

Battlestar Galactica has become one of the lost classics in the modern sci-fi canon. We live in an era of constant reinterpolation—new Star Wars serials churn from Disney every quarter, and Star Trek ...

Cosmic speed limits can be a major inconvenience but they've rarely stopped science fiction in its tracks. When it comes to space travel, Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is a major ...