Sci-fi fans who hope humanity can one day zoom to distant corners of the universe via wormholes, as astronauts do in the recent film "Interstellar," shouldn't hold their breath.

Whether or not an actual wormhole looks like a mirror ball, the premiere of "Interstellar" provides an opportunity to reflect on humanity's long-term options for space travel — and the reasons ...

In the 2014 film Interstellar, humanity takes advantage of a wormhole near Saturn to travel to different galaxies in minutes while searching for a new, habitable planet.Similarly, a network of ...

Wormhole travel across the universe and supergiant black holes are just some of the wonders seen in the film "Interstellar." See how the science of "Interstellar" works in this infographic.

In Chris Nolan's sci-fi epic Interstellar, the director employs lots of high-concept science, including the idea of wormholes. In the film, (spoilers ahead) Matthew McConaughey's Cooper, and his ...

Wormholes are key to sci-fi like Interstellar. Could they exist? : Short Wave In science fiction, wormholes are hyperspace subway tubes linking one part of a galaxy directly to another, distant point.

Wormholes have been popularized in science fiction, from the film 'Interstellar' to the series 'Stargate' and 'Star Trek'. These mysterious portals could be the key to traveling vast distances ...

Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi flick “Interstellar” might get some free promotion from a new scientific study suggesting that wormholes — space portals into other dimensions &md… ...

In science fiction - think films and TV like "Interstellar" and "Star Trek" - wormholes in the cosmos serve as portals through space and time for spacecraft to traverse unimaginable distances with ...

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. Previous physicists found that they ...

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. Previous physicists found that they ...

In science fiction – think films and TV like “Interstellar” and “Star Trek” – wormholes in the cosmos serve as portals through space and time for spacecraft to traverse unimaginable ...