Scientists believe they’ve discovered a way to travel at the speed of light, but there’s one detail that dampens their excitement. That means humans will have to wait 1,000 years to test it.

Concept illustration of a warp drive spacecraft bending space-time for faster-than-light travel

A new scientific paper is adding new fuel to one of space science’s most stubborn fantasies: a “warp drive” that could make distant stars feel like forever away. The research proposes a new way to create so-called warp bubbles, distorted regions of space-time that carry spacecraft, without the ships themselves breaking the cosmic speed limits. … Read more