The Latest Breaking News from Earth

A private crew is back on Earth after a nine-day trip to the International Space Station

An all-private astronaut team of two Americans and two Saudis, including the first Arab woman sent into orbit, splashed down safely off Florida on Tuesday night, capping an eight-day research mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

A recent report from the World Meteorological Organization about the state of the climate indicates that the global mean temperature in 2022 was 1.15°C above the 1850-1900 (preindustrial reference period) average. Moreover, the last eight years have been the warmest since the beginning of instrumental temperature records 173 years ago.

SpaceX launched 52 more of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit early Wednesday morning (May 31) and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea.

The four astronauts of the private Ax-2 mission returned to Earth in their SpaceX Dragon capsule tonight (May 30).

Recently released footage gives new, highly detailed looks at the first-ever launch of a fully stacked Starship vehicle, which SpaceX conducted last month.

A massive new sunspot is visible without using a telescope or binoculars, but you'll still need to protect your eyes when observing it.

‘Extraordinary’ sighting may open window on possibility of life beneath Enceladus’s icy outer crust

A private company has plans to test a revolutionary new heat shield that folds and unfolds like origami, and it could conduct a test flight aboard a SpaceX rocket later this year.

The total number of people in Earth orbit is now at a record high, though only for a short time. With Monday's (May 29) launch of China's Shenzhou 16 mission, the population in orbit grew to 17.

The company is making just 62 of them.