The Latest Breaking News from Earth

As Cornwall Spaceport prepares for the UK's first ever satellite space launch, Hannah Finch talks to Spaceport boss Melissa Thorpe about how this one giant leap is set to be the first of many

There is slim chance, only 1.2%, of Thailand being hit by the Chinese Longmarch 5B-Y4 rocket now expected to fall back to earth on Friday afternoon or Friday night, according to the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Gistda).

An enormous neutrino observatory buried deep in the Antarctic ice has discovered only the second extra-galactic source of the elusive particles ever found.

The platypus is one of Earth’s most unique creatures. It sports a duck-like bill and flippers. It locates prey in murky water by emitting an electric charge. Males have venomous spurs on their legs, and the females lay eggs. And a platypus’ fur glows blue-green under UV light!

The powerful Jan. 15 underwater eruption of Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in the South Pacific produced a plume that soared higher into Earth's atmosphere than any other on record - about 35 miles (57 km) - as it extended more than halfway to space, researchers said on Thursday.

A Soviet street dog went up to space, but the USSR was ill-prepared for her stay in space.

Research reveals climate change makes extreme wildfires in the Siberian Arctic more likely, which could further accelerate global warming.

A dominant view in science is that there is a mathematical truth structuring the universe. It is assumed that the scientist’s job is to decipher these mathematical relations: once understood, they can be translated into mathematical models. Running the resulting “silicon reality” in a computer may then provide us with…

Narkina 5 is basically a new version of a future dystopia on Earth. Here's how 'Andor' moved the first George Lucas movie into the actual 'Star Wars' galaxy.

The 37-inch marble sculpture depicts a woman sitting on an armchair, as a slave stands in front of her, holding up a thin folding box - which has been likened to a laptop

COP27 is the 27th Conference of the Parties (countries) that signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The convention was established at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and has been ratified by 198 countries. They agreed to stabilise the production of greenhouse gases in order…