Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Glass beads in lunar soil reveal ancient asteroid bombardments on the Moon and Earth

In 2020, China’s Chang'e 5 mission sampled more than a kilogram of Moon rock and soil and brought it back to Earth. The samples contain countless tiny beads of glass, created when asteroids hit the Moon and splashed out droplets of molten rock around the impact site.

The Conversation

A kung-fu kick led researchers to the world's oldest complete fish fossils – here's what they found

Some of the world’s most significant fossil discoveries have come from China. These include amazing feathered dinosaurs, the earliest modern mammals, and some of the oldest-known animals on Earth.

The Conversation

NASA's Juno spacecraft to fly by Jupiter's icy 'ocean' moon Europa tonight

The Juno spacecraft will get the most detailed snapshots yet of Jupiter's moon Europa as it flies by tonight. And you can help process the images.

ABC News

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Asteroid impacts on moon coincide with some on Earth, glass bead study shows

The research found that major impact events on Earth did not happen in isolation, but were accompanied by a series of smaller impacts.

The Independent UK

Queen's nickname for diamond brooch worth over £50 million and who owns it now

Lovingly gifted from her grandmother, it's the most valuable brooch in the world - the rare diamonds have a fascinating history as they were formed over one billion years ago, predating any life on planet Earth

Daily Mirror

Terrifying AI images create what the 'scariest people on Earth' look like

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: An artificial intelligence image generator gathers internet data based on key word prompts, which can sometimes create the stuff of nightmares

Daily Mirror

The best Lord of the Rings games to help you have a Middle-earth adventure

Explore Mordor to Moria with this list of the very best Lord of the Rings games of all time

GamesRadar

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

What are lunar eclipses and how do they occur?

Lunar eclipses occur when Earth blocks the sun and casts a shadow over the surface of the moon. We explore the different types of lunar eclipses here.

Space

Top 10 nature memoirs

Moving on from writing that holds the natural world at arm’s length, authors have begun using intimate life to show nature as a protagonist in itself

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Cuba left without power as Hurricane Ian heads to Florida

Island’s electricity grid collapses after hurricane hits, as people in Florida told to evacuate. Plus, Bowie’s Starman lyrics fly at auction

The Guardian - UK

Editorial: Whether it's asteroids, viruses or climate change, science is humanity's hope

NASA this week successfully did what it normally tries to avoid, and destroyed one of its own spacecraft — by ramming it into an asteroid. It was the first step in an experiment that could one day spare humanity from the fate of the dinosaurs by knocking a celestial threat…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Scotland could spot Northern Lights this weekend as solar storm triggers breathtaking spectacle

Scots have an increased chance of seeing aurora borealis in the coming days.

Daily Record

Earth is under threat, yet you would scarcely know it

Unlike most of the media, the Guardian resists political or commercial influence in order to keep the climate crisis front and centre

The Guardian - UK

Sago worm billed as astronaut food

Thai aerospace engineers have entered the second phase of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) competition by proposing Thai food wisdom -- in the form of the sago worm -- to feed future astronauts during long-duration space voyages, according to the Public Relations Department.

Bangkok Post

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - AU

‘This one’s for the dinosaurs’: how the world reacted to Nasa’s asteroid smashing success

Astrophiles and professionals celebrated humanity’s accomplishment at hitting a speeding space rock with a probe the size of a vending machine

Evening Standard

Nasa’s spacecraft collision with asteroid renews calls for space debris crackdown

Earth’s orbit is ‘littered’ with space debris, causing near-collisions, a space lawyer says

The Conversation

Solar geoengineering might work, but local temperatures could keep rising for years

Imagine a future where, despite efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly, parts of the world have become unbearably hot. Some governments might decide to “geoengineer” the planet by spraying substances into the upper atmosphere to form fine reflective aerosols – a process known as stratospheric aerosol injection.

The Hindu

Explained | The NASA spacecraft-asteroid collision

What is the ‘kick’ method which was used to deflect an asteroid headed towards earth? How can the technique be further utilised for space mining technologies?

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Axios

The asteroid threat gets real

Scientists say it's time to prepare for the possibility that one could be found on a collision course with Earth.

WEKU

This is what NASA's spacecraft saw just seconds before slamming into an asteroid

NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday night. These are the final images it captured as it hurtled toward the rocky surface.

Orlando Sentinel

Artemis I leaves launch pad ahead of Hurricane Ian

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA made the call Monday to guard against Hurricane Ian and got the slow gears rolling before midnight to send its Artemis I mission hardware back to the garage at Kennedy Space Center.

The Guardian - US

Seth Meyers on Donald Trump: ‘What is wrong with you?’

Late-night hosts discuss the former president referring to ‘nuclear’ as ‘the N-word’, Putin’s escalation of threats in Ukraine and Nasa’s asteroid defense test

The Hindu

BARC sets up Radon geo-station at Cusat

This is the first-of-its-kind geo-station, an earthquake early warning system, to be installed in Kerala

Reuters

Seismograph spiked twice on day of Baltic pipeline leaks - Germany's GFZ

A seismograph on the Danish island of Bornholm twice recorded spikes representing earth tremors on Monday, the day on which the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines underwent dramatic falls in pressure, German geological research centre GFZ said.

Evening Standard

Tech & Science Daily: Hear Nasa smash asteroid with spacecraft

Nasa’s Dart mission successfully smashes spacecraft into an asteroid in the first-ever 'planetary defense test’.

1 … 803 804 805 806

People

Linda ThomasGreenfield

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Artificial Intelligence

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.