The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Major Jesse A Marcel was a counterintelligence officer near the town of Roswell, new Mexico when it was alleged that the debris of an alien spacecraft was found in the town in 1947

The space rock sporting the catchy moniker "asteroid 7335 (1989 JA)" will be visible with conventional telescopes on Friday from 13h00 GMT – at a safe distance of 4 million kilometres.

Darwin locals have reported office furniture shaking after a magnitude-6.4 earthquake off the coast of Timor-Leste.

I hope the crocs are ok.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck off the coast of East Timor on Friday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said, prompting some people in the capital Dili to flee buildings, though a tsunami was ruled out.

A series of telescope photographs from the 1950s reveal unusually regular patterns of flickering lights in the sky

Starliner’s path to success has been turbulent.

Just a few months ago, we were confidently expecting to launch our rover, Rosalind Franklin, to Mars in September as part of the ExoMars mission, a collaboration between Europe and Russia. The landing was planned for June 2023. Everything was ready: the rover, the operations team and the eager scientists.

Scientists have no way of actually predicting earthquakes, but that hasn’t stopped these amateurs from trying.