The Latest Breaking News from Earth

U.S. Space Force Col. Nick Hague is back on Earth after living on the International Space Station for the last five-plus months.

Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth’s surface as powerfully as floods and storms. These animals effectively act as landscape engineers, reorganising soils and sediments. Yet their combined global impact has never been explored, until now.

BILLIONAIRE entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Starlink, which uses satellites to beam a broadband signal down to Earth, has began providing internet on…

Aurora chasers are on high alert for geomagnetic storm conditions overnight with northern lights possible at mid-latitudes.

Mysterious markings were reported in the sky on Monday night, but the explanation for them is more manmade than extraterrestrial.

Breathtaking photos of this month's total lunar eclipse capture a blood red moon and star-studded Milky Way over NOIRLab's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

A strange blue spiral lit up the sky over Europe on Monday night (March 24), with residents of the UK and other countries speculating on its true nature on social media.

Some gum chewers could ingest around 30,000 microplastics a year

Experts are already looking into the risks of piracy in space and solutions to this potentially devastating economic and legal problem.

A 2022 satellite photo shows smoke rising from a caldera on Tofua, highlighting the "looming threat" of the volcanic island.

The Greenland ice sheet makes up 80 percent of the world’s largest island. And, it’s melting thanks to human-caused climate change