Can We Detect Warp Drives From Alien Civilizations?

A new paper proposes how current and future-generation gravitational wave observatories can detect warp drive signatures.

Massive spacecraft traveling through space. A new research paper proposes that we can use current and future-generation gravitational wave observatories to search for gravitational waves generated by traveling spacecraft. Source: Image by author, generated by Stable Diffusion.

In Star Trek, Starfleet is the exploratory and defensive force of the United Federation of Planets. Starfleet’s most important rule is the Prime Directive, which dictates that…