The space economy is becoming a multi-layered commercial market. Falling launch costs are unlocking scale across satellites, data, and communications. Space is shifting from exploration to ...

Imagine a spaceship driven not by engines, but by compressing the spacetime in front of it. That's the realm of science fiction, right? Well, not entirely. Physicists have been exploring the ...

But it is also important to remember that rare earths are not rare. They are a commodity. Rare earths and rare earth magnets can be extracted from the tailings of America’s coal mines. With an ...

Physicists have been exploring the theoretical possibility of spaceships driven by compressing the four-dimensional spacetime for decades. Although this so-called 'warp drive' originates from the ...

In a surprising paper from 2021, scientists Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire suggested that they’d nailed down a physical model for a warp drive, which flew in the face of what we’ve long thought ...

In 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced that they had made the first confirmed detection of gravitational waves (GWs). This discovery confirmed ...

“Scotty, I need warp speed in 3 minutes or we’re all dead.” This command by first generation “Star Trek” Captain James Kirk in the fictional 2020s is a famous line in modern science fiction. It’s the ...

Warp drive sits in that strange space where pop culture, physics, and wishful thinking all meet. It sounds like pure fantasy, a shortcut to distant stars without waiting lifetimes to arrive. But ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears before the Senate Finance Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) ...

Humans are one (small) step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds.