The Latest Breaking News from Earth

As commencement season comes to a close, many campuses remain riven by the Israel-Hamas war. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the undergraduate class president was banned from walking at her graduation after delivering a fiery – and unauthorized – speech accusing her school of complicity in Israel’s campaign to…

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In a few days, a new satellite that can detect changes on Earth’s surface down to the centimetre, in almost real time and no matter the time of day or weather conditions, is set to launch from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre near Chennai.

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

Mark Lynas has spent decades pushing for action on climate emissions but now says nuclear war is even greater threat

New James Webb Space Telescope data reveal Pluto's high-altitude haze is a key driver of the climate on the dwarf planet, offering clues to Earth's ancient atmosphere.

Ride was the first US woman in space – but a National Geographic documentary looks at how she was forced to hide her queerness to succeed

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