When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On October 24, 1946, a V-2 rocket captured the first-ever photo of Earth from space. While these ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Every time I read a Thomas Pynchon novel, I think of Tristram Shandy. Laurence Sterne’s 18th-century novel ends ...

On 13 April 2029, the asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass safely at a distance of about 32,000 kilometers above Earth's surface, within the geostationary orbit, posing no threat to the planet. This ...

On June 30, 1908, at 7:14 am in central Siberia, local farmer Semen Semenov witnessed an extraordinary event: he described seeing "the sky split in two," with fire appearing high and wide over the ...

The story opens in 1893, as the “Chums of Chance”, the crew of the airship Inconvenience, take to the skies above the Chicago World’s Fair; from there, it contains plentiful digressions, taking in ...

The Dutch-flagged cargo ship Minervagracht sustained substantial damage and two of its crew have suffered injuries after it was hit by an explosive device in the Gulf of Aden, the vessel's operator ...

"Everyone knows his music. But no one knows the moment everything changed." ...

On 30 September this year the first human spacecraft ever to orbit a comet was deliberately crashed onto its surface in order to get the closest possible pictures of the enigmatic celestial body. This ...

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