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Ultramarathoner Ryan Montgomery is attempting to run over 200 miles in 24 hours this December, aiming to break a world record that requires maintaining a 7:15-per-mile pace for an entire day. The feat would equal running two back-to-back 100-mile races in a single day on a track.
Nearly 900 athletes from 67 countries are running a 6.7km loop every single hour until only one person remains standing. Two Australians are still going strong after 80+ hours, aiming for the 100-hour mark.
Dr. Garry Hunt, one of eight scientists chosen from nearly 1,000 applicants for NASA's Voyager imaging team, shares how the mission transformed our understanding of the outer planets. The probes, launched in 1977 to take advantage of a planetary alignment that happens once every 176 years, continue transmitting data nearly 50 years later.
Twelve years ago today, an Austrian daredevil jumped from the edge of space and became the first human to break the sound barrier without an aircraft. His 24-mile freefall captivated hundreds of millions worldwide and advanced safety research for future space travel.
A former paratrooper just completed an epic 28-year journey on foot from the southern tip of South America to his mother's doorstep in England, swimming the English Channel as his final step. Karl Bushby's incredible feat proves that the most audacious dreams can become reality with enough determination.
A former paratrooper just completed a 28-year journey on foot from the tip of South America to England, refusing to use any transport for 50,000 kilometers. Karl Bushby's epic trek proves what the human spirit can accomplish when we refuse to give up.
Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk is bringing his family's century-old pocket watch to the International Space Station this week. The heirloom represents four generations of progress and sparks hope for humanity's next hundred years.
A small salvage team spent six years searching for a sunken British warship before pulling off one of history's most daring deep-sea recoveries. They brought up 460 gold bars from a war grave 800 feet beneath the Arctic Ocean.
Nearly 3,000 years ago, a Greek soldier-poet named Archilochus witnessed something that changed how humanity sees the sky. His written account became the first eyewitness description of a total solar eclipse ever recorded.
In 1977, Carl Sagan's son Nick recorded a simple message for NASA's Voyager Golden Record, and that childhood hello is now billions of miles away in interstellar space. The boy who said "Hello from the children of planet Earth" grew up to become a science fiction writer, forever connected to humanity's most distant message.
NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two cosmonauts are heading home this weekend after spending eight months living and working 250 miles above Earth. Their safe return marks another successful mission proving humans can thrive in space for extended periods.
For the first time ever, a human Go player has defeated cutting-edge AI in an official series. South Korean champion Shin Jin-seo proved humans can still hold their own against machine intelligence.