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 ...

If you could somehow hitch a ride on the NASA Parker Solar Probe, you could travel from Los Angeles to London in approximately 49 seconds. So it's perhaps no surprise that the probe recently tied its ...

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 ...

In the pursuit of space exploration, humans have broken records that were previously thought impossible. At the same time, terrible accidents have marred the history of space flight, making later ...