The Latest Breaking News from Earth

While ambitious plans to return Red Planet samples to Earth are in development, some scientists argue that we should instead find ways to analyze Mars samples on the planet itself.

The home of a sunken Mercury capsule and the spacecraft that brought the Apollo 13 crew back to Earth is getting an upgrade. The Cosmosphere announced it is ready to renovate its Hall of Space.

A team of scientists led by a Tulane University oceanographer discovered that deposits deep beneath the ocean floor provide a means to estimate ocean oxygen levels and their relationship to carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere during the last ice age, which ended more than 11,000 years ago. Read further…

Find out what it's like to experience the polar night while hunting the northern lights along the Norwegian coast with Hurtigruten's Astronomy Voyage.

NASA lost contact with its Ingenuity Mars helicopter on Thursday (Jan. 18), toward the end of the little rotorcraft's 72nd Red Planet flight.

Japan on Saturday became only the fifth nation to achieve a soft lunar landing, but its "Moon Sniper" spacecraft was running out of power due to a solar battery problem.

What is the real Great Circle, and what can it tell us about the new Indy game?

"Blackfish" director Gabriela Cowperwaithe told Salon about capturing the world of Russians and Americans in Zero-G

Generally, photos of auroras capture bright, colorful bands dancing across the night sky, but a new satellite view captures the spectacular glow of an aurora in a new light.

NASA warns of more climate extremes in 2024 and confirms that the Earth's average surface temperature was at its hottest last year.

Despite the conclusion of the Peregrine lunar lander mission, Astrobotic is proud of how its spacecraft performed and is looking forward to its next flight.