Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

Footage credited to Ukraine’s Air Command Center appears to show a Patriot intercept of a 3M22 Zircon during Russia’s February 15–16 attack.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia launched two 3M22 Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles during its large-scale attack against Ukraine on Feb. 7, Oleksandr ...

Russia fired a Zircon missile at Ukraine earlier this month, Kyiv has said, in what appears to be the first use of the hypersonic weapon in two years of war. But with a spotty track record for ...

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. The mineral zircon is the oldest known piece of Earth existing on the surface today. The oldest bits date back as far as 4.37 ...

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.