Forget about Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali, the fastest punch in the world belongs to the mantis shrimp. This shrimp can smash a shell with the force of a .22 caliber bullet and remain intact despite ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has reached a record-breaking speed as it gets a gravitational assist from Venus to fall closer to the sun's scorching surface.

Becoming the fastest human-made object has been no small feat, though, and the Parker Solar Probe has completed 20 close flybys of the Sun during the past six years.

Another super-fast human-made object in space, the Juno spacecraft can reach speeds of 165,000 mph, according to NASA. Juno is a space probe launched in 2011 with the mission of exploring the ...

[Related: The fastest human-made object vaporizes space dust on contact.] The latest pass-by also set its newest record for proximity, at just 4.51 million miles from the sun’s plasma “surface.” ...

So it's perhaps no surprise that the probe recently t ied its own world record as the fastest thing human beings have ever made, with a clocked speed of 394,736 miles, or 635,266 kilometers, per hour.

The fastest human-made object vaporizes space dust on contact The latest pass-by also set its newest record for proximity, at just 4.51 million miles from the sun’s plasma “surface.” ...

NASA's sun-studying PUNCH mission captures its 1st-light images. Everything looks great so far Psyche spacecraft's sci-fi thrusters suffer glitch on way to metal-rich asteroid ...