An astrophysicist explains what wormholes are and how these theoretical space-time tunnels have popped up in the solutions to a set of decadesold equations.

Wormholes have long served as science fiction’s favorite shortcut through the cosmos, but a growing body of theoretical physics research suggests they will never function as tunnels. That does not ...

Theoretical research led by Professor Enrique Gaztañaga of the University of Portsmouth challenges the ...

Wormholes, also known as an Einstein-Rosen bridge, are commonly used in sci-fi stories as a way to quickly zip between distant parts of the universe. Sci-fi writers have long leaned on the wormhole as ...

What if we could traverse distances on an astronomical scale, in a blink of an eye, through the use of a wormhole? It’s a topic rife with speculation — but if recently published research is anything ...

A team of physicists from Sofia University in Bulgaria say that wormholes, which are hypothetical tunnels linking one part of the universe to another, might be hiding in plain sight — in the form of ...

Featured prominently in books like "The Forever War," games like "Portal," and films like "Interstellar," wormholes have got to be the most popular natural phenomenon in sci-fi, and we don't even know ...

The idea that wormholes are real may seem far-fetched. In fact, thinking of a tunnel that bores from one point in space to another that is thousands of light-years away seems like something from ...

The prospect that wormholes could one day enable time travel isn't new. In fact, the use of wormholes to transport yourself across vast distances of space and time has been used in science fiction for ...

Wormholes are a sci-fi staple, and and it's possible that they exist in the real universe. But how would they work? Physicists have now used a quantum processor to simulate a traversable wormhole, ...