The Latest Breaking News from Earth

As the end of the ISS looms on the horizon, NASA and private space companies are looking forward to the era of private space stations and what it will mean for humanity's presence in low Earth orbit.

Few sights in the night sky are as awe-inspiring as aurora. The vibrant dancing lights – usually seen close to the planet’s poles – are produced by a wind of charged particles streaming from the Sun into Earth’s atmosphere. The resulting disturbances are called geomagnetic storms.

A peculiar leopard-spotted rock, found beside an ancient, dried-out river in Mars' Jezero crater, contains some tantalizing clues of ancient life, NASA said.

A robotic excavator could build a dry stone wall to act as a blast shield around a launch pad on the moon, a new study suggests.

The unusual patterns, found beneath West Antarctica's Doston Ice Shelf, could help scientists to better understand how glaciers erode.

The 2024 Olympic Games opened on the same week Earth recorded its hottest day ever.

A new photo shows the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope beneath a star-studded sky at sunset, illuminated by a phenomenon known as the zodiacal light.

An exclusive interview with Michael Humphreys, the VFX supervisor for "A Quiet Place: Day One."

Researchers have laid out the case for complex life evolving 2.1 billion years ago, but not everyone is convinced it started so early.