The Latest Breaking News from Earth

The billionaire’s company was awarded more than $840 million by NASA to develop the deorbit vehicle

The idea that life on Earth arose through a series of improbable "hard" evolutionary steps may be misjudged, according to a new paper that says our Earth had a big say in matters.

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. When two of these ejections collide, they can generate powerful geomagnetic storms that can lead to beautiful auroras but may disrupt satellites and GPS…

The Savonoski Crater is a round hole in Alaska's Katmai National Park that has defied scientific explanation ever since it was discovered.

Chances of a collision have been repeatedly revised upwards but have now started to fall – but it may still hit the Moon

NASA has been changing the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in recent days, but the latest shift significantly downgrades the asteroid's threat level and makes a moon strike more likely.

Two astronauts have refuted Elon Musk's claims that two NASA staff were abandoned on the International Space Station.

The camera could potentially enable Beijing to scrutinize foreign military satellites – or even identify human faces from a low orbit

Upon its discovery, automated asteroid warning systems calculated a 3.1% chance of 2024 YR4 impacting Earth on 22nd December 2032