The Latest Breaking News from Earth

A green comet is making its closest approach to Earth for the first time in about 50,000 years.

Cafe owner Charlie Clarke ‘shrieked like schoolgirl’ when he turned up pristine necklace bearing initials of Henry and Katherine of Aragon

With just 3,000 of the pig-like animals still roaming the Gran Chaco region, a community conservation effort in Argentina is fighting for its future

The severe drought is damaging natural habitats, affecting agriculture, and creating major energy shortages

The world will likely breach the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in about a decade, artificial intelligence predicts in a new study that's more pessimistic than previous modeling.

C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was last visible during the stone age so if you miss it this time you’re unlikely to get another chance

In December 1972, Nasa’s final Apollo mission (Apollo 17) took the iconic “Blue Marble” photo of the whole Earth. Many, including science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, had expected that the sight of Earth from afar would instil the belief that mankind’s future lay in space.

Stargazers are finding it ever more difficult to see into space due to the vast number of satellites that are now orbiting the Earth and it is expected to get far worse, astronomers have said

Over the past four or five years, there has been no notable rise in these groundwater levels - meaning they remain at a low level

Despite being delayed for a year, NASA is now set to launch the Psyche space programme to an asteroid that is so valuable it's worth about 70,000 times the entire global economy

A new study using artificial intelligence finds that the world will likely warm a few more tenths of a degrees within the next 10 to 12 years and breach a key climate change threshold