Faster-than-light (FTL) travel is a concept that has long captivated both the scientific community and science fiction enthusiasts. In a cosmos where light speed is viewed as the ultimate velocity ...

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

The idea of warp drive—the ability to travel faster than the speed of light—has fascinated humanity for decades. It began as a fictional concept in Star Trek and Star Wars, fueling imaginations and ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

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 ...

When light travels unimpeded, it loses no energy. It can maintain that 186,000-mile-per-second speed forever. Discover the latest in science, tech, and space with over 100,000 subscribers who rely on ...

When I was a teenager, I was—shockingly, I know—deeply nerdy. At a science-fiction convention, I bought a button that read, “186,282 miles/second: Not just a good idea, it’s the law.” It was poking ...

Jarred Roberts receives funding from NASA. My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego backyard, was pointed at a galaxy unfathomably far from Earth. My wife, Cristina, ...