The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Huge iron ore deposits in Western Australia's Hamersley Province formed when major tectonic events led to the breakup of supercontinent Columbia and to the amalgamation of Australia.

The stars aren’t fixed and unchanging, unlike what many ancient people thought. Once in a while, a star appears where there wasn’t one before, and then it fades away in a matter of days or weeks.

And 2024 could be the hottest year on record.

As the end of the ISS looms on the horizon, NASA and private space companies are looking forward to the era of private space stations and what it will mean for humanity's presence in low Earth orbit.

Few sights in the night sky are as awe-inspiring as aurora. The vibrant dancing lights – usually seen close to the planet’s poles – are produced by a wind of charged particles streaming from the Sun into Earth’s atmosphere. The resulting disturbances are called geomagnetic storms.

You didn't really think he was gonna give it back did you?

A new Hubble Telescope image shines a spotlight on a classic spiral galaxy named NGC 3430.

Climate change is driving calls to save earth's biodiversity by storing DNA samples on the lunar surface

The moon may soon be home to frozen samples of Earth's endangered creatures. New research proposes a lunar biorepository to preserve animal skin samples with cells from the world's endangered species.

A peculiar leopard-spotted rock, found beside an ancient, dried-out river in Mars' Jezero crater, contains some tantalizing clues of ancient life, NASA said.

A robotic excavator could build a dry stone wall to act as a blast shield around a launch pad on the moon, a new study suggests.