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 of axion dark matter candidates, revealed in a study that a rocket may be able to theoretically travel at warp speed. This would be at a speed of more than 186,000 miles per second.