The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Dreams of space travel started small with the launch of Sputnik-1 by the Soviet Union, and escalated with the U.S. Apollo landing on the moon in 1969. Six decades later, plans are ramping up for space tourism, missions to the moon and Mars, and mining on the moon.

Christian Siriano kicked off New York Fashion Week with a collection inspired by Dune. Earth tones, metallics, and glamorous eveningwear took center stage ...

Two astronomy books from the Renaissance have found their way to a new home, where students will try to read a possible hidden text within one of them.

Observations of bright galaxies in the early universe could indicate that black holes were driving star formation and galaxy growth just 50 million years after the Big Bang.

A portion of ancient oceanic crust that sits atop Albania and hosts one of the largest chromium mines on Earth also contains a huge hydrogen reservoir, offering a potential source of clean energy.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has seen Jupiter's volcanic moon Io like never before, catching active eruptions, lava flows, and a side to the solar system's most volcanic body not seen in 35 years.

The PM’s bad joke revealed his inability to read a room. How on earth will he cope in an actual election campaign, asks Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Massive wildfires exposing millions to toxic smoke, drought shrivelling crops and key waterways, destructive storms supercharged by record ocean temperatures -- in the last year the world has had a taste of what to expect with warming of 1.5C. For the first time on record, Earth has endured 12 consecutive…

Due to an unexpected error in the Flight Data Subsystem of the Voyager 1, NASA's longest-operating probe is no longer able to provide telemetry data needed for basic control of the spacecraft.