Physicists in Scotland have slowed down the speed at which light travels through air for the first time.
An aircraft passenger managed to capture footage of an unidentified object above the city.
The team behind the Bloodhound SuperSonic Car will attempt to break the land speed record in 2015.
Compared to humans, spiders are capable of some impressive feats of speed, strength and endurance.
The impressive designs are based on Harold White's real-life work developing a genuine warp drive.
An amazing new bipedal robot from South Korea is able to run at a top speed of 28.58mph.
The famous cat might be fast but there's one creature that puts even the cheetah's run speed to shame.
Ryan Beitz has set himself what has to be one of the most impossibly pointless goals ever conceived.
Two of the new super-speed lifts will be installed inside China's Guangzhou Finance Centre by 2016.
Astronomers have identified a mysterious group of 20 sun-sized stars travelling at high speed.
A new study has revealed that birds react differently to cars on a road depending on the speed limit.
Scientists at the Met Office claim that global warming is on pause but that it will soon speed up again.
A policeman has reported seeing a UFO moving at supersonic speeds while he was off duty in Birmingham.
Stephen Wright had a miraculous escape after he was hit on the head by a train going at 70mph.
The expansion of the universe may be speeding up now but it appears that this wasn't always the case.
Violinst Ben Lee has gained the title after playing Flight of the Bumblebee at 15 notes per second.
An anonymous metro area man submitted footage of the objects to a local news station for analysis.
Felix Baumgartner broke several world records as he plunged over 128,000ft at speeds of up to 834mph.
The Waverider jet project aims to fly the aircraft at a speed of 4,300mph, six times the speed of sound.
A cheetah at Cincinnati Zoo was timed running 100m in 5.95 seconds at an astonishing speed of 61mph.