For decades, the starship Enterprise has been shorthand for impossible speed, a sleek symbol of television fantasy rather than engineering reality. Now a growing body of warp drive research is forcing ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On one particular Friday night in 1992, Miguel Alcubierre couldn’t stop thinking about Star Trek. For ...

Nearly 60 years ago, the original Star Trek series ignited a dream in the public’s imagination: that one day, people would travel the galaxy in ships propelled by faster-than-light “warp drives.” The ...