Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Shutterstock "Warp drives" used by super-advanced alien civilizations may create specific space-time ripples in their wake ...

A team of scientists has proposed that we could use existing Earth-based observatories to hunt for advanced alien life forms by seeking out the activity of their hypothetical warp drives. Sure, it’s a ...

In the 1990s, Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a new kind of hypothetical warp drive that would allow a spacecraft to travel faster than the speed of light. To pull off that ...

If a warp drive explodes in deep space, will anybody hear it? Probably not, but new research suggests that humans could one day detect the ripples in spacetime such a catastrophe would create, ...

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From the mind of Dean Alioto, godfather of found footage and director of The McPherson Tapes, comes a brand-new documentary about what lurks outside Earth’s atmosphere. After years of learning about ...

Speculative new research outlines a method for detecting extraterrestrial civilizations: by catching the gravitational waves produced by the collapse, or failure, of their warp drives. Sounds wild, ...