The Latest Breaking News from Earth

A recent satellite photo captured a giant comma-shaped cloud of "Saharan dust" being blown above the Atlantic Ocean. The hazy mass hit North America a week later.

One-third of the Earth’s land surface is already degraded. The UN estimates that more than 2.6 billion people are harmed by land degradation, with countries losing up to US$10.6 trillion (£7.8 trillion) a year because of damage to “ecosystem services”, including the benefits people get from nature such as water…

Samples from slag cliffs in England reveal industrial waste products can turn into rock in less than four decades, challenging assumptions about how rocks form.

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered an entire galaxy cluster wrapped in a 20 million light-year-wide envelope of charged particles.

"The Parting of the Ways" changed sci-fi TV finales forever. Here's why this 2005 'Doctor Who' finale holds up.

Climate scientist Michael Mann explains the complex connections between climate change, atmospheric waves, and extreme weather.

It’s fun. It’s educational. It’s hard to put down. You start to realize just how peculiar history is, as you cut through misconceptions, one meme explanation at a time.

The footage, which formed part of a live educational broadcast from orbit, has sparked accusations that the video was staged on Earth, despite it being a legitimate experiment in space.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket placed 26 Starlink internet broadband satellites into low Earth orbit, lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on June 16, 2025.

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another look at the potential "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 and found its chances of hitting the moon in December 2032 have increased to 4.3%.

A new study says climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years