Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Watch Venus vanish behind the moon in broad daylight today — without any special equipment

Today (June 17), the moon will pass between Earth and Venus, causing the hellish planet to temporarily disappear from the daytime sky. Here's what it will look like, exactly when it is happening and how you can safely view this skywatching spectacle.

LiveScience

European rocket launches record-breaking mission with Amazon internet satellites (video)

An Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket launched a record-breaking load to orbit early Wednesday morning (June 17), carrying a batch of Amazon Leo satellites to orbit.

Space

56 million dead, one frozen secret: Antarctica outed the deadliest secret in human history

Antarctic ice cores climate change: Scientists found ancient air trapped in Antarctic ice. This ice holds records of Earth's atmosphere for thousands of years. It shows volcanic events and human activities like mining. A significant drop in carbon dioxide levels is linked to the devastating impact of European colonization on…

The Economic Times

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

The Risk of ‘Unproven Outcomes’ Has This Analyst Betting SpaceX Stock Will Fall 30% from Here

SpaceX may be Wall Street's newest obsession, but one analyst warns that sky-high expectations could be setting investors up for a hard landing.

Barchart

He shot a wolf for fun. Then something in its dying eyes turned a hunter into America's greatest conservationist

As the animal lay dying, Aldo Leopold looked into its eyes and saw what he later described as a “fierce green fire” fading away. In that moment, something changed. The young hunter who believed that fewer wolves meant more deer—and better hunting—began to realize that neither the wolf nor the…

The Economic Times

Forget the internet, there's a hidden superhighway under your feet, and it's almost a billion Sun trips long

Forget the internet, there's a hidden superhighway under your feet, and it's almost a billion Sun trips long and scientists have now mapped this underground fungal network for the first time. The study shows that these fungal networks stretch about 110 quadrillion kilometers across Earth. They help plants obtain nutrients…

The Economic Times

Mysterious Atlantic 'cold blob': the only place on Earth that keeps getting colder

Climate puzzle: a new study probes the only place on Earth that has cooled in recent years, linking the 'Cold Blob' mainly to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, AMOC.

Euronews

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

'The system is critically stressed': San Andreas and San Jacinto faults scarily close to major earthquake, study finds

The San Andreas fault and a neighboring fault in Southern California have reached their highest levels of tectonic stress in 1,000 years, and a rupture at one fault could propagate to the other, researchers found.

LiveScience

Why Grok Could Be a Reason to Stay Away from the SpaceX IPO

Grok usage dipping might be a warning sign for SpaceX.

Barchart

Earth-based telescope shares image of Artemis II capsule near the moon — one of the farthest photos of humans ever taken

A blurry photo captured by the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia shows Artemis II's Orion capsule circling the moon more than 200,000 miles away, making it a candidate for the longest-distance image of humans ever taken from Earth.

LiveScience

80,000-year-old Antarctic ice reveals radioactive stardust still falling on Earth. Is it dangerous?

Scientists have detected iron-60, a radioactive isotope from ancient supernova explosions, in Antarctic ice up to 80,000 years old. This discovery indicates that Earth is still being showered by debris from stellar explosions that occurred millions of years ago. The findings suggest our planet is traveling through a cloud of…

The Economic Times

Indonesia's near-identical, 'Twin Peaks' volcanoes form striking mirror image — Earth from space

A 2021 astronaut photo shows the surprising similarities between Mount Sundoro and Mount Sumbing, which lie at the heart of Java, Indonesia.

LiveScience

Comet crash or ice volcano? Scientists are stumped by a secret world past Pluto, and it may be wearing a secret atmosphere

2002 XV93 atmosphere mystery stuns space scientists as a distant Kuiper Belt object reveals unexpected signs of activity. The 470-kilometer icy world challenges old Solar System theories. Researchers believe possible gas, dust, impacts, or icy volcanoes may explain this rare cosmic discovery. The finding shows even small worlds can hold…

The Economic Times

MOLE story and ending, explained

"Some things should clearly stay buried."

Destructoid

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Space

Move over 'Mass Effect': 'Exodus' just got an extended gameplay reveal, and we are beyond hyped for this sci-fi RPG

Travel deep into the Centauri Cluster to the planet Sang in this riveting sneak peek

The Guardian - UK

‘Wow, it really worked!’: the 70s TV show that’s causing worldwide panic – 50 years later

When UK mockumentary Alternative 3 tried to spook viewers that scientists were vanishing as part of a sinister space plot it succeeded. Today, the resulting conspiracy theory has even seen Trump’s government launch an investigation

The Conversation

Asteroid or comet? Meteor or meteorite? How to identify and classify the rocks you see streaking through the sky

Have you ever been out at night and seen a streak of light blast across the sky and disappear? Ever wonder where that shooting star came from, or how it got to be in your sky?

The Conversation

Building data centers in space is an intriguing idea on paper, but major engineering challenges must be solved

Imagine if one company could become the railroad, electric utility and cloud-computing provider of the emerging space economy. That potential fueled excitement around the long-anticipated initial public offering of SpaceX. Investors are not simply betting on rockets anymore. They are betting on an entire orbital ecosystem.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Space

SpaceX launches 3 huge BlueBird direct-to-cell satellites from Florida (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched three of AST SpaceMobile's giant BlueBird direct-to-cell satellites early Wednesday morning (June 17).

International Business Times UK

Alien Life: Scientists React to Steven Spielberg's Claims Extraterrestrials Are on Earth

Steven Spielberg's claims of alien visits to Earth spark debate among scientists, who stress the lack of credible evidence despite the possibility of extraterrestrial life elsewhere in the universe.

The Guardian - UK

Hold to This Earth review – an explosion of anger as Indigenous America shakes up Yorkshire

Neons and videos mix with weaving and beadwork to address subjects as diverse as stolen land, ancestral traditions and queer identity. But the self-made nude steals the show

The Economic Times

500 hidden earthquakes beneath Antarctica, and the strangest ones are shaking the middle of a tectonic plate where deep quakes were not supposed to happen

Antarctica, once thought to be seismically quiet, is now revealing hidden earthquakes. Advanced AI has analyzed old data, finding over 500 tremors deep beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. These quakes, occurring unexpectedly, are too small to cause damage but highlight how much remains unknown about our planet's seismic activity.…

International Business Times UK

SpaceX at $2.1 Trillion Is 'Still Cheap', Investor Claims in $50 Trillion Thesis as Musk Responds

SpaceX's valuation debate intensifies as investors predict a potential worth of $50 trillion, driven by Starship's promise to lower space access costs and enable new industries.

Louder

“The area was being evacuated. The police knocked our door and the letting agency told us to leave. We decided to stick it out”: Marillion’s Pete Trewavas on the storms, earthquakes and blizzard that birthed the third Edison’s Children album

Assisted by a lunar astronaut’s son and a Hollywood special effects creator, 2019’s The Disturbance Fields defined the band’s mission to save this world, and others

Euronews

Scientists drill into Spain's only meteorite crater for clues to Mars

Researchers are drilling 500 metres into Spain's only internationally recognised meteorite crater, hoping to learn more about an ancient impact event and gather insights that could help scientists understand Mars.

1 … 9 10 11 12

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Archetype Entertainment

33 stories

AMOC

25 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.