The Latest Breaking News from Earth

The quake struck at 11pm on Friday with estimates reporting that 1,204 people were injured

In the early 19th century, scientists started using rock strata to divide the Earth’s 4.6-billion-year history into distinct periods. By that point, they were beginning to realise that Earth was far, far older than previously thought, and were naming and organising different rock formations in an attempt to impose order…

Britain on Thursday said it would join the European Union’s flagship Horizon science research programme and its Copernicus earth observation programme, but not the Euratom nuclear research initiative

"Climate breakdown has begun."

This is not just a story of a wildlife charity being bullied – it’s about the ugly truth of power dynamics in today’s Britain, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

A cluster of ancient stars glitters in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The team mapped the distribution of dark matter along a straight line through space at a higher resolution than ever before, and it may help us close in on what dark matter actually is.

The black hole steals three Earths' worth of mass every few weeks, making for a slow cosmic feast for the black hole.

Burners were forced to endure hours of torrential rains before tens of thousands bailed on the festival. Scientists warn that such large bursts of showers are a result of a warming planet.