The Latest Breaking News from Earth

After putting on a great show in our evening sky since the fall of 2024, dazzling Venus puts on a spectacular showing for early morning risers for the balance of 2025.

One of the cleanest places beyond Earth may be making its residents ill. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have had rashes, allergies and the odd infection, and scientists now believe the station’s environment is too clean. Researchers recently concluded that the ISS is so sterile it may be…

The film will be screened in cinemas from May 8 – the day the veteran broadcaster turns 99.

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe.

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will livestream views of the asteroid's close approach online.

A team that includes aerospace engineers, historians and writers have proposed retrieving the 67-year-old Vanguard 1 satellite from orbit.

Convection processes beneath Venus' scorched surface may help explain the planet's many volcanoes, a new study reports.

Initially, 2024 YR4 raised Earth impact concerns for 2032, but later calculations, especially from the Webb Telescope, lowered the risk.

The first images of the space body have been captured by the Webb Telescope