The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brain-teasers for future quizzes

Restorative practices on the Heenat Salma farm in Qatar are being used in attempts to achieve better food security

How did life form from non-living chemicals? New research looks to the motion of the ocean

The full moon of October, called the Hunter's Moon, will grace our skies on Oct. 17 —and it will be a "supermoon" as well.

A so-called 'time traveller' from 2671 has posted a series of warnings on TikTok, including aliens and 'catastrophic' tsunamis, that will apparently alter history

Humans have taken plants to space before, and successfully grown plants in space, but they have never spread their roots to the moon. A new study could change that soon.

Newcastle Herald readers have their say

The earth has finally softened but winter is still a way off — and there are plenty of discount plants up for grabs

Officials shocked to find buckets, chappals, decayed bone 33 feet below the surface. More than four decades ago the area used to be granite quarry

TikTok user @radianttimetraveler claims that humans will find new planets, Earth will be hit by a meteor and bring aliens and a wormhole to other galaxies will be discovered, all by May 2023.

When the first modern humans arose in East Africa sometime between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, the world was very different compared to today. Perhaps the biggest difference was that we – meaning people of our species, Homo sapiens – were only one of several types of humans (or hominins)…