Heraclitus famously said, "war is the father of all." This has been very true in the last century: technology stemming from military competition between superpowers has greatly enhanced people's lives, from duct tape to the internet. Our way of life greatly depends on satellites launched into orbit by rockets that are, to put it bluntly, reconditioned Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs). Even the famous Soyuz that is used to carry all astronauts to the International Space Station is a version of a Soviet ICBM, the R-7 Semyorka.
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.
