If you blinked, you may have missed him. On Aug. 16 in Berlin, Usain Bolt shocked the world by running the 100-m dash in 9.58 sec.–eclipsing his own world record by more than a tenth of a second. The ...

The Parker Solar Probe continues to break the record for the fastest human-made object ever built. The probe has been tasked with capturing a close-up look at the Sun's outer corona, and it has just ...

When you think fast, you typically think of sports cars or the speed of a bullet, but do you ever think about satellites, or more specifically, space probes? The question as to what is the fastest ...

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Apollo 10 Command Module The only humans on Earth who can begin to comprehend the speeds of the fastest human-made objects in space might be the crew of Apollo 10. Apollo 10's crew was the first to ...

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Noah Lyles beat Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson by five-thousandths of a second to win Olympic gold in a stunning men’s 100m final. The American crossed the line in 9.79 seconds — the exact same time that ...