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.

Wormholes have been a staple of science fiction for decades, promising instant travel across vast distances of space and time ...

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

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 ...