The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Two astronomers suggest SETI researchers should listen for signals from alien spacecraft positioned to take advantage of our Sun’s gravitational lensing effect.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught a jet stream that appeared to travel at a speed greater than 99.7% of the speed of light but due to an illusion it appeared to be going seven times faster

After crashing to earth from space nearly 92 years ago, a rare meteorite heads to the South Australian Museum.

Virgin Orbit, a US company which provides launch services for satellites, has announced that the first orbital space mission from the UK will blast off from Cornwall. The rocket, which will carry nine satellites, along with a launch aircraft have been delivered by an RAF C-17 – a military, heavy-lift…

A radio telescope used to look back 13 billion years stumbled over signals that may change the way ever-increasing space junk can be safely managed.

In the blockbuster fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, one of the principal antagonists, the wicked Adar, diverted a river into the labyrinth of tunnels under a dormant Mount Doom to trigger an explosive volcanic eruption. This transformed the surrounding landscape into the bleak lands…

McDivitt commanded two early Gemini and Apollo missions in the 1960s that played a key role in preparing for the moon landing in 1969.

From incrementally rising temperatures and seas to an influx of natural disasters, the climate right now certainly isn't the same as it was before the industrial era

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An isolated bacterium discovered in an Algerian cave might be a solution to wheat gluten sensitivity, found joint research by Sweden’s Umea University and Algeria’s Constantine University. Gluten sensitivity is the body’s inability to digest or break down the gluten found in wheat and other grains. People with this digestive…

Would you rather be buried or cremated when you die?