Artist Mark Rademaker has unveiled a set of concept images imagining what a spaceship capable of traveling to other stars in a matter of months would really look like. Although it may look l... Read more
A surprising number of scientists, engineers and amateur space enthusiasts fervently believe in this dream As any avid Star Trek fan can tell you, the eccentric physicist Zefram Cochraneinve... Read more
Dr. White believes that advances he and others have made render warp speed less implausible. Beyond the security gate at the Johnson Space Center’s 1960s-era campus here, inside a two-story... Read more
The Alcubierre warp drive concept is capable of moving a spaceship, within an enclosed bubble of space-time At the start of 2013, a research paper was submitted to the Astrophysical Journal ... Read more
“The bottom line is, nature can do it,” said White. “So the salient question is, ‘can we?'” In the “Star Trek” TV shows and films, the U.S.S.... Read more
The first steps towards interstellar travel have been taken, but the stars are very far away. Voyager 1 is about 17 light-hours distant from Earth and is traveling with a velocity of 0.006 p... Read more
“Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such a remote possibility.” These are the words of Dr. Harold “Sonny” White, the Advanced Propulsion Theme... Read more