Science fiction is full of amazing space phenomena. Some of those phenomena have gone from theory to reality — like black holes and pulsars. But what about wormholes? These portals through space are ...

Wormholes are a classic trope of science fiction in popular media, if only because they provide such a handy futuristic plot device to avoid the issue of violating relativity with faster-than-light ...

In some ways, a wormhole might look like a black hole. And the wormhole would look like a sphere, not a hole. Einstein's theory of general relativity allows for the possibility of wormholes, but there ...

Dejan Stojkovic works for the State University of New York, University at Buffalo. He receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Imagine two towns on two opposite sides of a mountain.