The Latest Breaking News from Earth

If you love the Omega Speedmaster for its space-themed history, this is the watch for you.

The famous doughnut-shaped image of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole may not be fully accurate, an independent analysis of EHT data suggests.

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.