From Star Wars' hyperspace to Star Trek's warp drive, sci-fi makes interstellar travel look easy. But physics has a stark reality check. This video breaks down why traveling at the speed of light is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The science fiction vision of stars flashing by as streaks when spaceships travel faster than light isn't what the scene would actually look like, a team of physics students says. Instead, the view ...