The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on Oct. 13, 2024 as the comet was displaying an 'anti-tail.'

SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites today (Oct. 30) from Florida's Space Coast.

The fantastic actress Teri Garr has sadly passed away. But her work in a strange little 'Star Trek' episode will never be forgotten.

NASA's Perseverance rover found strange green spots in Martian rock, potentially indicating a past interaction with liquid water.

Australian scientists are developing techniques to extract rare earth metals crucial to semiconductor manufacturing more efficiently from mining waste.

Following recent communication issues, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft resorted to a backup radio transmitter that has been inactive since 1981.

Debris from the broken-apart Intelsat 33e telecom satellite is spreading across geosynchronous orbit, threatening spacecraft in this precious region of space, an animation shows.

U.N. Secretary-General calls for increased global efforts to protect biodiversity at COP16 summit in Colombia, highlighting urgent conservation needs and f...

The two cubesats will assist in the most detailed study ever of a binary asteroid.

Oxygen, the molecule that supports intelligent life as we know it, is largely made by plants. Whether underwater or on land, they do this by photosynthesising carbon dioxide. However, a recent study demonstrates that oxygen may be produced without the need for life at depths where light cannot reach.

A 6-mile-thick shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's vast subsurface ocean.