 Faster-than-light travel in fiction

Faster-than-light (FTL) travel is a common concept in science fiction that refers to the ability to move or communicate faster than the speed of light, which is approximately 299,792 kilometers per second (186,282 miles per second) in a vacuum. In the realm of physics, according to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, nothing with mass can travel at or exceed the speed of light.