Star Trek's starships travel vast distances throughout the galaxy thanks to faster-than-light travel known as warp speed.

Somehow, we all know how a warp drive works. You're in your spaceship and you need to get to another star. So you press a ...

Space - the final frontier. Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise have been zipping around space on our TVs for almost 60 years - and now the world's leading scientists are working ...

Exploring the inconsistencies across decades in one of Star Trek's supposedly core principles: the Prime Directive.

In the world of "Star Trek," just about every technology that makes Starfleet's explorations possible hinges on the existence of one discovery: subspace physics. An amorphous fictional construct ...

In Star Trek, dilithium crystals — whatever those are — are critical to the operation of a starship’s warp drives. But a Texas professor thinks he can make a baby step towards a warp drive ...

Google Maps lets you explore space without having to step out of the house. It has added a new animation to their interplanetary exploration tool. The new animation feels a lot like the warp drive ...