The Latest Breaking News from Earth

The International Space Station is no longer the only place where humans can live in orbit.

Thanks to a cool physics trick, flares from a nearby star can heat a planet from the inside, powering plate tectonics.

Biodiversity is at a crucial point and pressure is growing on the international community to commit to new goals to protect it.

Negotiations on a deal to protect 30% of the Earth by 2030 are woefully behind in addressing the concerns of native people, whose land holds the majority of the world's remaining biodiversity, indigenous advocates told Reuters at the U.N. nature summit in Montreal.

In this week’s newsletter: Dismal results from previous conferences mean the stakes are high at this year’s event – this time it simply has to be different

More than one-third of all people in the world live in cities, towns and villages on coasts. They rely on healthy oceans for many things, including food, income, a stable climate and ready connections to nature.

Researchers have experimentally shown that amino acids could have formed in these early meteorites from reactions driven by gamma rays produced inside the space rocks. Read on for details:

Projects to develop space centers that can launch satellites into Earth's orbit are sprouting up around Europe, amid the soaring popularity of small rockets and the commercialization of space. By the end of this year, Spanish start-up PLD Space expects to launch its Miura-1 mini-rocket from the El Arenosillo site…

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck Abepura in Indonesia on Thursday, United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.