The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, astrogeologists (that is, people who study planetary geology, not the grifters who ask for your star sign and suggest that while you might feel overwhelmed, now is a good time to address the big picture stuff in your life) hypothesise that a young Earth collided…

NASA's exciting space exploration missions to the moon and Mars, searching for signs of ancient life and using innovative technology for future discoveries.

Humans have long been fascinated by organisms that can produce light. Aristotle, who was a scientist as well as a philosopher, wrote the first detailed descriptions of what he called “cold light” more than 2,000 years ago. More recently, pioneering researchers like World War II Army veteran Emmett Chappelle and…

Taken from the VLT in the Chilean Atacama Desert, this picture makes the universe look fishy

As we approach solar maximum, something strange is happening to the sun's magnetic field. We explore this flip in polarity in more detail and look at the effects it could have on Earth.

NASA is testing how infrared light can transfer far more information than radio frequency communications.

This isn't the first time that Swifties caused the earth to "shake shake shake" at one of her concerts

“Surely this is the most solitary organism in the world,” wrote palaeontologist Richard Fortey in his book about the evolution of life.

NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has imaged Westerlund 1, the largest and closest super star cluster to Earth, in stunning detail.