Miles Brucker articles

Over the decades, astronauts have broken barriers, set records, and redefined what humans are capable of.

The name Borgia is synonymous in history with treachery, hedonism, and scandal. Along with the equally infamous Medicis, they were one of the most powerful families in Renaissance Italy. From lusty popes to poison plots, the members of House Borgia made Game of Thrones look like child's play.

Scientists used baby giraffes to help uncover a solution to re-acclimatizing returning astronauts.

While Charlize Theron's career is nothing short of amazing, she has endured more than her fair share of trauma over the years.

Despite tearing apart their wealth and social standing nearly a century ago, the name Astor is still familiar in Western culture. The Astors marked not just New York, but maps across the globe with their legacy. However, this family holds a dark and twisted past, full of feuds, secrets, and scandals. Let’s find out how The Astors became one of America’s richest families—and how they threw it all away.

During the storming of the Bastille, the people tore down the fortress by hand, brick by brick, because they didn’t have any explosives on them.

When Leonardo DiCaprio was skydiving, his parachute got knotted and had to be cut free by a fellow skydiver.

Eleanor of Aquitaine began her tumultuous life in Europe's royal circles as the most eligible bride in the Medieval period. But she didn't stay that way for long. By the time Eleanor took her last breath, she had led armies, mouldered in a prison cell, endured a scandalous breakup, wed a significantly younger man, supported an illicit revolt, and more. Prepare to bend the knee to the fierce Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Through the late 1800s, Ned Kelly and his gang of bushrangers looted, pillaged, and terrorized the authorities in Australia—and are still seen as heroes to some.