"We've been tracking children's growth from birth all the way through to adulthood, and the fastest period of growth is ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest human, ran a 100-meter sprint at a speed of 23.35 miles per hour (37.57 kilometers per hour). That’s ...

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 ...

Since our distant forebears first leaped from high rocks into water, tamed horses, or strapped strips of wood to their feet to slide down snowy mountainsides, humankind has found speed thrilling—and ...

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 ...

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 ...

That means satellites can be included on the list of human-made objects in space, but they're not quite fast enough to make the list of the fastest ever spacecraft. Even Starlink satellites, which ...

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