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 ...

Artistic depiction of the darkness measurement. Image not to scale. Physicists have experimentally confirmed a strange ...

And an international team of physicists appears to have found just such a loophole: the only thing that goes faster than ...

If there is an absolute law in the universe, it’s that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of ...

In 1887, one of the most important experiments in the history of physics took place. American scientists Michelson and Morley failed to measure the speed of Earth by comparing the speed of light in ...

Since Star Trek was beamed into our television sets in 1966, warp drives and faster-than-light engines have been the pillar ...

Here is a thought experiment for you: imagine shining a powerful laser at the moon, the beam cutting through space until it lands on its dusty grey surface. Now flick the laser so the spot of light ...

A historic discovery in wave dynamics opens new doors for quantum information encoding. Albert Einstein famously discovered that nothing with mass, not even supersonic sound, is faster than the speed ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Nearly 60 years ago, the original Star Trek series ignited a dream in the public’s imagination: that one day, people would travel the galaxy in ships propelled by faster-than-light “warp drives.” The ...

Albert Einstein famously discovered that nothing with mass, not even supersonic sound, is faster than the speed of light. For over a century we have operated with this belief. But, in reality, we’ve ...