The Latest Breaking News from Earth

With all the terrible news on climate change, it’s easy to lose track of what’s happening with particular species. So, in case you missed it, a new report has bad news for Earth’s five surviving species of rhino.

Fall gets its official start this weekend in the Northern Hemisphere

NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust plunging towards a Utah desert on Sunday.

The capsule collected a dust sample from a distant asteroid three years ago and scientists are about to get their first chance to look at it

Around 15 years ago, I was on a European Space Agency (Esa) committee, looking at Esa’s strategy for proposed forthcoming space missions. Under consideration was a mission to an asteroid. Over dinner, one of the committee members, an astrophysicist, quizzed me on why we needed to visit one of these…

Remote work is helping offices slash their carbon footprint and killing the commute, resulting in up to 54% lower emissions, new research finds.

Discovery adds weight to view that Europa’s ocean could be most promising place in solar system to look for alien life

Spouting humpback whales, playful sea lions, and majestic glaciers, Radhika Aligh slows down to enjoy nature one wave at a time

Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost feels quite ghostly itself, doomed to walk the earth through its many adaptations. There have been at least 14 television versions, the most recent in 2021, and it has not been long since cinemagoers encountered director Yann Samuell’s French-Belgian version, Le Fantôme de Canterville (2016).