The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Prince William described the finalists as ‘innovators, leaders, and visionaries’

According to a new study, climate change will increase opportunities to see rainbows. Read on for details:

Fifteen innovative projects from across the globe are in the running , including a London project to make packaging from seaweed and plants

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…