Ukraine claims it has evidence Russia fired an advanced hypersonic missile – one that experts say is almost impossible to shoot down – for the first time in the almost 2-year-old war. The ...

Putin has touted Russian hypersonic weapons like the Zircon missile as impossible to defend against. Zircon in particular is powerful but there are limits on what it can do, a Western expert says.

Ever heard this life advice? When solving a big problem seems impossible, break it into smaller steps. Well, scientists just took one of geology's biggest controversies and shrunk it down to atomic ...

Russian state media has announced the first test of the Zircon hypersonic missile. Zircon is a ship-launched anti-ship and land attack missile system. Zircon travels at Mach 9, giving defenders little ...

Russia has tested a new hypersonic anti-ship missile that can travel a blistering 6,138 miles an hour, or 1.7 miles a second. The missile, known as Zircon, will attack ships at sea and land-based ...

The oldest known Earth stuff that remains on the surface of our planet is a mineral that's been called the "Time Lord" because it's so incredibly good at keeping geologic time. The mineral is zircon, ...

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