The Latest Breaking News from Earth

NASA isn't sure yet if it will bring its Starliner astronauts home from the ISS in the Boeing capsule or put them on a SpaceX Crew Dragon.

The ground is humming with geothermal energy that could heat or cool our homes – and now the big US utilities are starting to take note

For the more than 100,000 years humans have been on Earth, we have looked up at night and seen the stars and our celestial home, the Milky Way galaxy. Cultures all around the world have stories and records incorporating this majestic, sublime sight.

The Perseid meteor shower should be visible across the UK from around sunset on the night of August 12.

July 2024 ends Earth's 13-month heat record streak due to El Niño waning, highlighting ongoing global warming crisis.

A Chinese Long March 6A rocket broke apart shortly after launching 18 internet satellites on Aug. 7, creating a cloud of at least 300 pieces of trackable debris.

The deep complexities of climate change raise a myriad of challenges for humanity – not least of which is how best to respond. Should we throw ourselves into slashing carbon emissions and stabilising Earth’s climate as soon as possible? Or accept our fate and go into survival mode?

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescope, scientists have investigated if nearby exoplanets could support life, or if their stars are blasting them with too much deadly high-energy radiation.

Alien: Romulus is almost here, so we're diving back into all things Alien, including the coolest spaceships the movies have had so far. These are our favorites.

Scientists just pulled the longest hunk of Earth's mantle from beneath the ocean.

The rocks will help to explain what role the mantle played in the origins of life on Earth.