Wormholes sit at the edge of science and storytelling, promising shortcuts across the cosmos and even pathways through time. Even if these tunnels in spacetime never turn up in a telescope, the effort ...

For most of the past century, wormholes sat comfortably in the realm of science fiction, a mathematical curiosity that let ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen.