The Latest Breaking News from Earth

PlayerUnknown Productions is cooking up something huge, and we're finally learning more about it.

A new teaser and plot description has arrived for Hulu’'s "Alien: Earth" TV series.

The find suggests that the Moon’s recent history is a lot more complicated, and a lot more eventful, than we realized.

The general election loss should have given Tory leadership hopefuls pause. Instead they’re doubling down on the oddness

A SpaceX rocket carrying the 7,001st Starlink internet satellite launched into orbit from Florida today (Sept. 5), then aced its landing at sea.

Chinese hackers were spotted targeting a Chinese trading company with new malware.

British colonialism turned India’s tigers into trophies. Between 1860 and 1950, more than 65,000 were shot for their skins. The fortunes of the Bengal tiger, one of Earth’s biggest species of big cat, did not markedly improve post-independence. The hunting of tigers – and the animals they eat, like deer…

On Wednesday (Sept. 4), astronomers spotted a never-before-seen asteroid, 2024 RW1, around eight hours before it entered Earth's atmosphere. The "harmless" space rock quickly burned up as predicted, creating a bright green streak across the night sky before spectacularly exploding.

A new video from an astronaut's vantage point in space captures a bright green burst over Earth as a meteor exploded in the night sky.

On a Sunday morning in late August 2024 a nine-year-old girl named Eli-zé du Toit was sitting on her grandparents’ porch near a small town in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, when she heard a long rumble, then heard a rustling in a nearby fig tree. As she watched, a…

The award-winning artist is reinventing the way landscapes are depicted in art – not least by pointing out that human bodies are made of the same stuff