An ambitious plan to test extreme physics close to a black hole would involve a space probe weighing only a few grams, travelling at a third of the speed of light ...

Wormholes, theoretical passages through space-time, have captivated scientists and science fiction enthusiasts alike for ...

Other examples aren’t so kind to science. The wormholes of Interstellar break no existing theories, but finding one may be elusive.

The problem with wormholes, Part I What Thorne struggled with in the backseat of a car in 1985, trying to fix Carl Sagan's plot, is that wormholes don't want to be used for interstellar travel.

Physicists say that breaking into the higher dimension of a wormhole could enable interstellar travel—and even time travel.

Last fall, following the release of Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, astrophysicist and Cosmos-host Neil deGrasse Tyson delivered an epic Twitter rant against the many scientific inaccuracies in the ...

The science advisor for “Interstellar” discusses the film’s impact, and how new information about gravitational waves could have changed it.

The first teaser for Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated sci-fi Interstellar is out. The nearly 2-minute trailer features visuals from the history of the U.S. space program, while being ...