The Latest Breaking News from Earth

An exoplanet with clouds of glass and metal reflects 80% of the starlight that hits it.

In countries near the Earth’s equator, tourists are often dazzled by a demonstration of a mysterious physical phenomenon. A presenter will position three buckets of water – one in the Northern Hemisphere, one in the Southern Hemisphere, and one directly on the equator – and let the water drain out.

NASA's Valkyrie bot has its first job. 

A new 3D journey from the James Webb Space Telescope through over 5,000 galaxies demonstrates a 13.4 billion-year journey back in time.

There are only three worlds in our solar system with rivers: Earth, Mars and Titan

A huddle of distant galaxies makes a strange streak in space, visible in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Just as Darwin used the fossil record to piece together the evolution of life on Earth, scientists can use a "cosmic fossil," the universe's first light, to understand how the cosmos evolved.

A prominent extraterrestrial-hunting scientist thinks that more than 50 tiny, metal spheres pulled from the Pacific Ocean might be the work of intelligent aliens. Others are skeptical.

The UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has confirmed it: El Niño conditions have arrived and are expected to become moderate to strong as they develop over the coming year. El Niño is the hot phase of a natural fluctuation in the Earth’s climate system (the full name of which is…

A dozen homes torn apart by earth movement on Southern California’s Palos Verdes Peninsula during the weekend are likely to fall into an adjacent canyon

According to an oft-repeated factoid, half of all the human beings who have ever existed on Earth have been killed by malaria – equivalent to around 54.5 billion people.