Set in a future Earth troubled by environmental degradation, where the dream of space exploration has been abandoned for more urgent pursuits, Interstellar follows Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a ...

This article is the second in an ongoing series, Science at the Cinema, that explores research and researchers portrayed in film. “Interstellar,” the story of a perilous space journey, is a must-see ...

A disk of glowing gas swirls into the black hole "Gargantua" from the movie Interstellar. Because space curves around the black hole, it is possible to look round its far side and see the part of the ...

World-renowned astrophysicist Prof. Kip Thorne, theoretical physics, the California Institute of Technology, described how black holes and the recent detection of gravitational waves contributed to ...