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 ...

In this last part of our series on recently digitized books from the Wenner Collection, we are focusing on works that ...

From the Upside Down through the Devil's Anus and beyond. Here are 6 times these theoretical wormholes turned up in sci-fi ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.

Albert Einstein was intrigued by a simple puzzle: an old car must travel 2 miles at an average of 30 mph. The twist? Its structure makes the solution impossible. Can you solve it?

The man was the smartest person on the planet. On his birthday, why not celebrate by quoting him and sounding brilliant?

There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the ...

The fifth and final season of "Stranger Things" wrapped up this week. The hit Netflix show is set in the 1980s, about an Indiana town that gets caught up with a paranormal world and the various ...