The Latest Breaking News from Earth

Hobart’s Theatre Royal was packed to the rafters on a chilly October evening when the irrepressible nature warrior Bob Brown launched his latest book Defiance.

Rare earth mineral-related stocks are trading lower Wednesday. Earlier this week, the US and Australia signed a deal that would boost supplies of rare earths and other critical minerals.

The first Nvidia H100 GPUs are heading into space next month, in Starcloud satellites that will power the Crusoe Cloud.

When I imagine the future of space commerce, the first image that comes to mind is a farmer’s market on the International Space Station. This doesn’t exist yet, but space commerce is a growing industry. The Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization for education and advocacy of space, estimates that the…

There’s something almost magical about watching fall’s golden carpet of leaves transform into rich, dark, earthy compost by spring. What was once crunchy clutter underfoot suddenly becomes a gardener’s secret weapon—something pros affectionately call “black gold.” It doesn’t sparkle or shine, but in the world of soil health, it’s pure…

Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power

New satellite imagery from the European Space Agency reveals nearly four decades of dramatic ice loss for two of Patagonia's largest glaciers.

The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) launches a global campaign to improve comet astrometry, targeting the challenging comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1).

Panic and speculation rise as reports of 'two moons', UFO sightings, and the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS spark wild theories of an alien arrival on 29 October. Scientists say there is no danger, but conspiracy theorists are unconvinced.