The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Ana Khouri is drawn to textured forms in new jewellery collection ‘Raw Editions’

Study delivers dire warning although rate of increase is debated by some scientists amid a record-breaking year of heat

The newborn Earth was struck by a Mars-size rock that helped create the moon, and the impact may have left behind continent-size remnants of the rock near Earth's core, a new study finds.

Rocks formed during the Chicxulub asteroid impact reveal fine dust particles were main drivers of the global winter which led to extinction of 75% of Earth's species.

Under the stewardship of geographer Sir Dudley Stamp, thousands of volunteers (including many schoolchildren) came together in the 1930s on a mission that sounds relatively simple on paper: to record how British land was being used.

Anecdotal evidence suggests a full moon can cause people to not sleep as well. But can science support the theory?

New research proposes that impact melted most of both worlds and led to the formation of the moon

Mystery blobs in Earth's mantle may be chunks of a Mars-sized space rock that crashed into our planet 4.5 billion years ago, scientists discover.

The ancient almost-planet Theia struck Earth and formed the Moon. A new study suggests it also left two blobs deep inside our planet.