Back in the prehistoric days of theoretical astrophysics (1985), in a mystical and exotic corner of planet Earth (Fresno, California), a man sat in the back of a car and tried to break the spacetime ...

Wormholes have been popularized in science fiction, from the film 'Interstellar' to the series 'Stargate' and 'Star Trek'. These mysterious portals could be the key to traveling vast distances ...

Faster-than-light travel is impossible according to our current understanding of physics. Wormholes are theoretically possible but require unstable, exotic matter to stabilize. Generation ships are a ...

Kip Thorne, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was Interstellar's science advisor. The movie explores scientific concepts like wormholes and time dilation. Interstellar depicts a space mission searching ...

In a book to be published this October, physicist Paul Halpern will explain how to build and use a cosmic wormhole as an interstellar shortcut to distant parts of the universe, or to travel backward ...

For a film about space, "Interstellar’s" long first act has a very earthly setting: an arid, generically midwestern, desert-like farm. Upon entering the film, viewers find themselves in a near-future ...