Serious Star Trek fans are familiar with the term nacelles—the long, cylindrical engines that power the Starship ...

Warp drive has long lived in the realm of starships and scriptwriters, but the equations behind it are starting to look less ...

For decades, the starship Enterprise has been shorthand for impossible speed, a sleek symbol of television fantasy rather ...

Warped Perception — a channel dedicated to putting a fun spin on science, engineering, and technology — has been known to feature miniature engines to give viewers a better understanding of how the ...

If humanity ever wants to escape the solar system, we’re going to need a faster-than-light engine. Enter: the warp drive. While such a drive pushes the limits of known physics, a new study ponders ...

Star Trek has influenced real-life technology before, and it's doing it again via a proposed design for a real warp speed ...

"Second star to the right, and straight on till morning." Turning on his warp engines, this was the direction Capt. James T. Kirk gave his helmsman in Star Trek VI (quoting, curiously enough, from ...