"Warp drives" used by super-advanced alien civilizations may create specific space-time ripples in their wake that we can spot from Earth, a new paper argues. However, the jury is still out on ...

Physicist José Natário, PhD, a professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, wrote his own influential paper about the mathematical feasibility of warp drives in 2001. However ...

Scientists from the U.K. and Germany theorized that a warp drive that experiences a containment failure would produce a gravitational wave, otherwise known as a ripple in spacetime. The paper ...

A depiction of a warp bubble in action from the 2016 film "Star Trek Beyond." (Image credit: Star Trek/Paramount Pictures) In the new paper, uploaded June 4 to the preprint server arXiv ...