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New Warp Drive Research Dashes Faster Than Light Travel Dreams Share To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix.   In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universe’...

By Sam Baron, Associate professor, Australian Catholic University shutterstock In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universe’s ultimate speed limit by bending the fabric of reality. It was an intriguing idea – even NASA has been researching it at the Eagleworks laboratory – but Alcubierre’s proposal contained problems that seemed insurmountable. Now, a recent ...

"Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants and needs, nature plays out its grand acts on scales of space and time that are truly hard to grasp. Perhaps all we can look to for real solace is our endless capacity to ask questions and seek answers about the place we find ourselves in." -Caleb Scharf

Shawyer is currently working on the third-generation EmDrive design. After a widely reported set of recent studies all but killed the controversial EmDrive, the propulsion device’s inventor has fired back by pointing out what he calls critical errors in the research. Who’s who in this cutting-edge scientific mudslinging, and what does the future really hold for the “impossible” EmDrive? ➡ First, let’s briefly recap how we got here. For such a far-out concept, the idea of the EmDriv...

Yes, the"impossible" engine failed critical thrust tests. But that was always going to happen, this scientist claims.

Image: Luis M. Molina/Gizmodo, Getty Images To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Five years ago, NASA researchers experimented with an object called the EmDrive (or electromagnetic drive), a Y-shaped metal chamber in which, they reported, thrust could be produced without propellant. S...

The idea was always far out, but that’s part of how science moves forward. EmDrive works (or not) by pumping microwaves into an asymmetrical closed chamber. In major international tests, the physics-defying EmDrive has failed to produce the amount of thrust proponents were expecting. In fact, in one test at Germany’s Dresden University, it didn’t produce any thrust at all. Is this the end of the line for EmDrive? ➡ The EmDrive, copyrighted by its parent company SPR Ltd, theoretically w...

Last Updated: Astronomers Study Interstellar Objects Passing Through The Solar System A new study led by researchers from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies revealed that roughly seven Interstellar objects enter our Solar System every year. A new study led by researchers from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies revealed that roughly seven interstellar objects enter our solar system every year and they follow predictable orbits while they are here. According to the reports by Scien...

Warp speed can become reality as spaceships can travel faster than light, says scientist At warp speed, astronauts may be able to reach other star systems in a shorter period of time. March 15, 2021 09:30 GMT Traveling at warp speed is no longer limited to science fiction as a scientist revealed that spaceships can travel at speeds faster than light. Dr. Erik Lentz, Ph.D., a physicist at the Göttingen University in Germany who focuses on the computational, theoretical and experimental aspects ...

Astronomers have detected how many interstellar objects may be visiting our solar system, in a recent study. The research conducted by Cornell University shows interstellar objects (ISOs) passing through the solar system can be directly observed by Earth-based telescopes and potentially explored at close range by spacecraft. The aim of the study was to find additional ISOs and planning missions to intercept or rendezvous with these bodies will greatly benefit from the knowledge of their likely...