The Latest Breaking News from Earth

The rotation of Earth's inner core began to slow down more than a decade ago, altering the length of our days by fractions of a second.

Around the world, people celebrated the June 20 solstice in a variety of ways as Earth's north pole reached its greatest tilt towards the sun.

NASA and Boeing engineers are troubleshooting various faults in the Starliner spacecraft. But with only 45 days of docking time available, the window for return is closing.

Proton decay was first proposed by Andrei Sakharov in 1967, yet to this day there’s no evidence of it on Earth; therefore, Patrick Stengel is proposing to dig for the answers on the Moon. The post Physicists Want To Drill A 5-Kilometer Hole On The Moon, Discussion Online Ensues first…

Earth's oft-squabbling nations will need to set aside their differences, at least for a while, when a big, dangerous asteroid puts our planet in its crosshairs.

The energy of moon-forming can have a big say in whether large or doomed smaller moons are built.

Take our quiz to find out how your survival skills would hold up if you were there the day the loudest place on earth went quiet.

THE Beckhams’ fortune, as revealed in The Sunday Times’ Rich List, was in the region of £455 million on the back of advertising deals with the likes of Armani and Adidas. Victoria’s fashion brand has made a profit for the first time in years and it now includes cosmetics and…

This month, let's turn our attention to two celestial objects that can readily be seen even from bright cities. One is our nearest neighbor in space, while the other is a familiar pattern of stars.

Across the world, climate change is driving deadly heat — but it will only worsen unless we end fossil fuels

"There was this gigantic river system": Researchers find ancient lost world deep beneath Antarctic ice.