The Latest Breaking News from Earth

No matter how much you learn about the universe, there is still plenty left to uncover, and that includes all sorts of scary and weird science facts, like the ones on this list.

Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total solar eclipse, as millions of people looked up to witness totality.

A Navy SEAL, medical doctor and NASA astronaut lifted off for an eight-month stay on the International Space Station — and that was just one of the three crewmates on Soyuz MS-27.

A never-before-flown SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of Starlink satellites into orbit today (April 7) from the coast of California.

A bright star located in the Milky Way appears nestled in the distant galaxy NGC 5530 due to a chance alignment along the Hubble Space Telescope's line of sight.

In 23 billion years, these two white dwarf stars will collide. Then, they'll explore. Here's why scientists say this discovery is such a big deal.

A NASA astronaut currently on the International Space Station has recorded an incredible video of a vivid green aurora over Earth on Saturday, 5th April.

SpaceX's Fram2 astronauts take the first X-ray images of the human body in space, with a tip-of-the-hat to the first X-ray image ever taken.

A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by Nasa with participation from the European Space Agency (Esa). The mission will allow scientists to use the best laboratory instruments on Earth to determine whether Mars hosted…

The LIFE mission would feature four space telescopes acting together to search for biosignatures on rocky planets in the habitable zones of their stars.

Extraordinarily powerful light from gamma-ray bursts might help produce heavy elements from the outer shells of dying stars.