NASA scientist and Advanced Propulsion Team Lead Harold White has the kind of job thousands dream of and few achieve -- he's in charge of the space agency's efforts to determine if a faster-than-light ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aided by the gravitational pull of Venus and the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the fastest man-made object in history when ...

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 ...

The picture depicted above is not some secret NASA project built in the recesses of the dark side of the moon, but the brainchild of concept artist Mark Rademaker, who designed what could be the first ...

Warp drive has long been a narrative shortcut for science fiction, but a new generation of physicists is treating it as a serious, if distant, engineering problem. Instead of asking whether ...

Covering interstellar distances rapidly may still be a distant dream, but it’s now getting unprecedented financial support. A nonprofit called the Limitless Space Institute, co-founded by former NASA ...

Is humanity close to making interstellar spaceflight a possibility, even within some of our own lifetimes? It certainly seems so as new breakthroughs in warp drive designs warrant further ...

Click to expand... It has to carry propellant, which has to be moving with it. An 1kW/N ion drive with 100% efficiency would have to be ejecting 0.5 grams of material per second at 2km/s relative to ...

In the 1990s, Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a new kind of hypothetical warp drive that would allow a spacecraft to travel faster than the speed of light. To pull off that ...

[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=29070605#p29070605:bpshrbry said: Dmytry[/url]":bpshrbry]edit: geez NSF people know so little actual physics ...