The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Humans have long been fascinated by organisms that can produce light. Aristotle, who was a scientist as well as a philosopher, wrote the first detailed descriptions of what he called “cold light” more than 2,000 years ago. More recently, pioneering researchers like World War II Army veteran Emmett Chappelle and…

Taken from the VLT in the Chilean Atacama Desert, this picture makes the universe look fishy

As we approach solar maximum, something strange is happening to the sun's magnetic field. We explore this flip in polarity in more detail and look at the effects it could have on Earth.

Until June 12, the Eisenhower Park in New York's Nassau County was buzzing. The Indian team was in the city and played three matches at the pop-up stadium that was put together there as one of the three venues in the US to host the T20 World Cup. The excitement…

NASA is testing how infrared light can transfer far more information than radio frequency communications.

This isn't the first time that Swifties caused the earth to "shake shake shake" at one of her concerts

“Surely this is the most solitary organism in the world,” wrote palaeontologist Richard Fortey in his book about the evolution of life.

NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has imaged Westerlund 1, the largest and closest super star cluster to Earth, in stunning detail.

Volcanic meteorites from Mars give scientists a glimpse into the planet's structure.

The presence of sulfur dioxide around a hot Neptune exoplanet with an evaporating atmosphere could help us understand how it formed.

Hubble has mapped the outflow "burps" of a nearby feeding supermassive black hole-powered quasar for the first time, measuring speeds of 6.5 million mph, around 8,500 times the speed of sound.