The science fiction canon is thick with ideas about how to make faster-than-light travel possible. Some writers favor wormholes, some filmmakers go in for time dilation, some graphic novelists use ...

The pop-culture pros at Cracked let their science correspondent take a deep dive into the theoretical physics of hyperspace travel without actually going anywhere.

When we watch movies or play video games that feature space travel, someone inevitably ratchets up their ship's speed to warp drive and begins traveling through hyperspace. In most forms of visual ...

Sci-fi films often suggest hyperspace would look like this, with stars becoming long streaks of light. That vision is contradicted by physics, though, students say. Sci-fi films often suggest ...

George Lucas may have sold his Star Wars franchise to Disney a little too soon, missing out on an opportunity to release yet another re-mastered special edition with authentic looking hyperspace ...

In Solo: A Star Wars Story, a roguish pilot cons his way through a distant galaxy for one thing: coaxium. Well, actually, he did it all for a girl, but coaxium was the key to a life of freedom far, ...

EMdrive could enable a huge leap in travel around the solar system and interstellar travel and possibly even open up exotic warp or hyperspace physics. Adam Crowl is writing on a broad variety of ...

The two Star franchises (Wars and Trek) and countless science fiction movies have given generations of armchair space travelers an idea of what to expect when looking out the window of a spaceship ...

It's another year and another Star Wars Day—May the 4th be with you. Following my tradition, I'm going to take some element from Star Wars and do some cool physics. For this year's post, I'm going to ...

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