The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Excessive volatility returned to the market in a big way last week. The SP 500 dropped more than 4% Friday, following more tariff saber-rattling from the Trump administration. Major indices rebounded about halfway on Monday, but investors are now bracing for more trade war volatility. 

A small asteroid, called 2025 TP5, safely flew by our planet on Oct. 15 at about a quarter of the distance to the moon.

Impulse Space — which was founded by Tom Mueller, SpaceX's second-ever employee — just announced that it plans to build a robotic moon lander to help open the lunar frontier.

Satellite data reveal that a weak region in Earth's magnetic field has grown by an area roughly half the size of continental Europe in the last 10 years.

Alien: Earth's Disney+ success could lead to a franchise return for a true legend

ASML's finance head, Roger Dassen, said the company has sufficient rare-earth reserves to keep production running despite China's new export-control regime that kicks in on December 1 and can halt shipments of rare earth materials across the world.

Jim Cramer wanted investors to rotate out of "quantum/nuke/crypto" hype into real-economy names. But judging by the year-to-date leaderboard, that rotation might have landed in another bubble — rare earths. Stocks around the “Rare Earth Mineral trade are on fire” he said. These miners, refiners, and energy-adjacent plays are soaring,…

Four coronal mass ejections are set to hit Earth between 15 and 17 October

Researchers have discovered dozens of new methane seeps littering the ocean floor in the Ross Sea coastal region of Antarctica, raising concerns of an unknown positive climate feedback loop that could accelerate global warming.