The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Probably many of us are aware that bad memories tend to stay with us, sometimes even longer than good ones. At the same time, they're things that made us who we are, no matter how hard or heartbreaking they were.

NASA's Perseverance rover took a break from its Mars mountaineering expedition recently to survey its old stomping grounds.

There is clearly giddy excitement in the shaky footage showing hands scrabbling in the soil in the Chew Valley in south-west England. A close-up shot captures someone pulling silver coin after silver coin from the churned earth as a woman laughs “there’s pennies everywhere.” The video accompanied news reports in…

Solar geoengineering research is advancing fast, after a recent flurry of funding announcements. Yet these technologies are still speculative and have many critics, and we worry their concerns won’t be heard. If geoengineering is essentially allowed to self-regulate, with no effective global governance, future research could easily take us down…

SpaceX previously told The Independent claims of conversations between the billionaire and Russian presidents were ‘unsubstantiated’ and ‘misleading’

Astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under lights designed to simulate the light of a star called a K-dwarf.

Lawyers for Friends of the Earth urged Surrey County Council to take immediate enforcement action against the developer of the Horse Hill site.

There are more species of arthropod than any other group of animals on Earth – we know now more about their history

The crew were revealed less than a day ahead of launch.

The Ballon d'Or's history is steeped in controversy over stars who were overlooked when it was clear that they deserved their moment of glory

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the galaxy IC 3225 with a comet-like tail of gas streaming from its central disk as it moves through the Virgo Cluster.