The Latest Breaking News from Earth

In a historic first, astronomers have detected low-frequency gravitational waves using a galaxy-sized antenna of millisecond pulsars in the Milky Way.

This week, scientists were able to recover items from the bottom of the ocean that landed there out of the sky 10 years ago - and this Harvard professor says they could be proof of extraterrestrial life

An infant star system contains the basic building block for organic chemistry, new James Webb Space Telescope images reveal.

The search for planets outside our Solar System – exoplanets – is one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy. Over the past few decades, more than 5,000 exoplanets have been detected and astronomers now estimate that on average there is at least one planet per star in our…