The Latest Breaking News from Earth

U.S. President Donald Trump secures an investment from a South Korean firm to build a rare earth refinery in Tennessee.

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has grown a colossal, sunward anti-tail larger than the distance to the moon. Is this an unprecedented comet, or is Harvard's Avi Loeb right about a technological origin?

The ash plume disrupted flights as far away as India.

When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it’s snowing so hard that the reindeer can’t see the way.

The year 2025 has not been a great one for U.S.-Chinese relations. Tit-for-tat tariffs and the scramble over rare earth elements has dampened economic relations between the world’s two leading economies. Meanwhile, territorial disputes between China and American allies in the Indo-Pacific region have further deepened the intensifying military rivalry.

There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth orbit, or LEO, which tops out at about 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth on 19 December, offering astronomers a rare early Christmas spectacle.

Explore 20 urban legends: chilling tales or mere folklore? Discover bloody lore and ghost stories that many people believe, shared by a "friend of a friend."

Navigating the chaos of Christmas celebrations can feel a bit like fighting through the battle of Armageddon. Yet while it might be tempting to escape this with a hot chocolate and another viewing of Love Actually, Christmas films needn’t be jolly.