The Latest Breaking News from Earth

A fire at the launch pad shortly after an engine test "caused irrecoverable damage" to ABL Space Systems' second RS1 rocket, the company announced on Monday (July 22).

Two loops of "dark" plasma exploded from the sun on July 21, sending a stream of plasma and magnetic field known as a coronal mass ejection barreling towards Earth.

SpaceX's Dragon series now has a new entrant: a larger, tougher variant that will send the ISS to its doom sometime in the 2030s.

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Northern lights could be visible over some northern and upper Midwest states on July 24. A geomagnetic storm watch has been issued by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.

It was previously thought that only photosynthetic organisms such as plants and algae generate Earth’s oxygen

In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen."

NASA's ISS-mounted X-ray telescope NICER has weighed and measured the closest pulsar to Earth. The neutron star PSR J0437 spins 174 times a second and has a mass of 1.4 suns.