The Latest Breaking News from Earth

America’s electric vehicle market can be unpredictable. Last year, the Honda Prologue shot up the sales charts despite being a General Motors product under the skin. The Chevy Equinox EV quickly became GM’s top-selling electric model after deliveries began in mid-2024. And now, in an unexpected twist, the Volkswagen ID.4…

The Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids is currently cruising through the Asteroid Belt, and will fly close to asteroid Donaldjohanson in April.

Zelenskyy might visit Trump this week for a rare earth minerals deal in efforts to win Washington’s backing for Kyiv.

The US-Ukraine deal involves rare earths and critical minerals to reduce reliance on China.

When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you’re living on a flat plane. After all, this is why you can navigate a new city using a map: a flat piece of paper that represents all the places around you. This is likely why some people in…

In world-first observations, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching two distant alien planets "spilling their guts into space" as they rapidly disintegrate — and scientists are elated at what they've found.

Extinction is inevitable. Expected. Almost all (99%) species that have ever existed have died out. Those disappearances have largely occurred at consistent background rates. But in the context of mass extinctions, ecosystems are placed under immense pressure, at above-average speeds. Here, the language changes from the commonplace to the exceptional.

US president says of his Ukrainian counterpart, ‘I hear he’s coming on Friday’. Plus, train robbers swipe $2m worth of Nikes

Ukraine and the U.S. have agreed on an economic deal involving rare earth minerals, aiming to ensure U.S. military support to Ukraine. President Zelenskyy ...

Ukraine has a number of critical minerals that have crucial uses in defence systems, technology manufacturing and green energy

NASA's PUNCH and SPHEREx missions are scheduled to launch no earlier than Sunday (March 2). Here's what each is built to do, and why they could yield some terrific results for astronomers.