The Latest Breaking News from Earth

In September 1859, the same year that Darwin published On the Origin of Species, telegraph systems across Europe and North America stopped working and started sparking, leading to fires in some cases.

The ring could be responsible for a prolonged drop in temperatures millions of years ago.

The Northern Hemisphere will be treated to a partially eclipsed harvest supermoon during September 17 and 18. Here's how to photograph the standout celestial event, tonight

Four private astronauts are back on Earth after a five-day mission that set firsts and broke records in an effort to advance human spaceflight.

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

NASA says this month’s full moon will rise on September 17 at 10:35pm EDT (02:35 GMT on September 18).

Get your best view of this lunar event above the capital’s skyline

The full moon of September will put on a dramatic show tonight, the exact timing of which will depend on your location.

Earth will grab itself another moon this month, but only briefly. The "mini-moon" in the form of asteroid 2024 PT5 will stick around for just two months.

A distant star has a dead star companion lurking in its vicinity that could be a monster-massive white dwarf, raising the question: how has it avoided being devoured by this cosmic zombie?

As a child growing up in the early 1990s, I remember learning in school about the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels traps heat near the Earth’s surface, like the glass of a greenhouse. I imagined myself on the playground, roasting inside a humid hothouse.