6 days ago · A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible warp-drive designs and detection methods.

A warp drive or a drive enabling space warp is a fictional superluminal (faster than the speed of light) spacecraft propulsion system in many science fiction works, most notably Star Trek, [1] and a subject …

Some scientists have criticized the Alcubierre drive, however, because it requires too much mass and negative energy for humans to ever seriously construct a warp-based propulsion system.

6 days ago · A new warp-drive study proposes a novel segmented design that brings hyper-fast space travel one step closer to becoming a reality.

Dec 8, 2025 · Warp drive technology, while now theoretically more feasible, is still likely decades or even centuries away from realization due to the enormous mass and energy requirements involved.

May 23, 2024 · The researchers did indeed discover a warp drive solution: a method of manipulating space so that travelers can move without accelerating.

Aug 25, 2025 · Warp drives sound like something out of pure science fiction, but they’re actually a theoretical way to travel faster than light. The idea is to manipulate space-time itself—creating a …

Nov 12, 2024 · Recently, scientists at the think tank Applied Physics have proposed an alternative: a “constant velocity warp drive” that operates within the bounds of conventional physics.

There's the notion of wormholes, or Einstein-Rosen bridges: shortcuts created by folding space-time. And then there's the warp drive, or Alcubierre drive, a hypothetical engine that can create warps in …

Feb 23, 2025 · A ring-shaped warp drive device could transport a football-shape starship (center) to effective speeds faster than light. The concept was first proposed by Mexican physicist Miguel …