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 ...

Every generation grows up with starships that jump across galaxies in a heartbeat, but the real universe is far less forgiving than the screen. The same physics that lets GPS satellites work and ...

NORFOLK, Va. — A light year is exactly what it sounds like: the distance light travels in one year. If you need to get somewhere quick, you'd want to jump on this train because light travels through ...

In late 2020, physicist Harold “Sonny” White, PhD, research director of the nonprofit Limitless Space Institute, noticed something peculiar—and familiar—in a circular pattern of data plots generated ...

Faster than light travel may produce gravitational waves that we could see here on Earth. Warp drives may or may not be possible, but if they are then could a distant alien civilization’s warp fields ...