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 ...

Warp drive has long lived in science fiction, but physicists now treat it as a real, if deeply uncertain, question. The idea ...

Humans are one (small) step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds.

The EmDrive, an experimental propulsion device, may be producing a warp field. According to posts on the NASA Space Flight forum, when lasers were fired into the EmDrive resonance chamber, it was ...

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 ...

You know that scene in the film Contact where the “Machine” is spooling up, its three spinning rings kicking out crazy light and an electromagnetic field powerful enough to pitch nearby Navy ...

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 drives have long lived in the realm of science fiction, but the underlying physics that inspired them is very real and surprisingly precise. As researchers probe the edges of general relativity ...

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 ...

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