The Latest Breaking News from Earth

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams will not return to Earth on the troubled Boeing Starliner spacecraft. Instead, NASA will bring them home in February 2025 aboard a SpaceX vehicle, while Starliner falls to Earth uncrewed.

As humans alter the planet’s climate and ecosystems, scientists are looking to Earth’s history to help predict what may unfold from climate change. To this end, massive ice structures like glaciers serve as nature’s freezers, archiving detailed records of past climates and ecosystems – including viruses.

As space agencies and private companies look toward sending human crews to Mars, they'll have to find ways to mitigate the dangers posed by high-energy radiation from solar storms.

If you thought you weren't a science-fiction fan, think again.

Well-known 'facts' sometimes turn out to be complete myths, but do you know which ones?

Exclusive: Rory Kinnear tells us that this version will be used in a "different way" to Tolkien’s books

Letters: 'We'll soon be exporting death and destruction'.

The US-based journalist has fashioned a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of how everything from microbes to mammoths transformed our world into a living organism

Discover the mysterious ultra-low velocity zones in Earth's mantle that slow seismic waves by 50%. Explore their global impact and ongoing research efforts...