Wormholes sit at the edge of science and storytelling, promising shortcuts across the cosmos and even pathways through time.

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

For instance, one of the biggest puzzles in physics is the black hole information paradox. In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking ...

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 ...

Imagine two towns on two opposite sides of a mountain. People from these towns would probably have to travel all the way around the mountain to visit one another. But, if they wanted to get there ...

A new experiment using Google’s Sycamore quantum processor has taken a bold step toward testing ideas from quantum gravity. For the first time, researchers successfully sent quantum information ...

While talking about wormholes, Mr. Clarke says they allow time travel. Fans are theorizing that the characters could travel back in time to save the world. Attention everyone who has watched Volume 1 ...

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The much anticipated series finale of Netflix's Stranger Things is predicated on wormholes — a concept in physics that often appears in science fiction. So what are wormholes?