The Latest Breaking News from Earth

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a rare main asteroid belt comet, discovering water around the object that could help reveal how Earth became a wet planet teeming with life.

Twice-reflected sunlight subtly illuminates the dark limb of the crescent moon just before and after the new moon in a phenomenon called Earthshine, or 'Da Vinci glow'.

A lab grown diamond is made of carbon, just as a mined diamond is. However, the history of diamonds mined from the earth has long been associated with environmental destruction and conflict.

Gaia – named after the Greek Goddess of Earth - opened to the public at the weekend and will run until June 24 at Mackintosh Queen’s Cross, giving people the chance to see this incredible globe up close.

It happened 8 billion lightyears away and was unprecedentedly bright and powerful. And I for one am pretty excited about it, says writer and actor Rhiannon Neads

Dallas’s special teams coordinator very bluntly said the team is considering all of its options.

Are we alone in the universe? It’s a question that fascinates scientists and the public alike. In science, the focus tends to be on our search for life elsewhere. The idea that we might be watched by a distant alien civilisation, however, is usually confined to the realm of science…

The eight-year-old played a public role in her grandfather Charles' big day - as well as keeping her younger brother Louis in check.

Holidaymakers will be able to fly from London to Sydney in less than two hours within a decade by travelling through space, said the UK Civil Aviation Authority. The organisation is exploring the effects of suborbital space flights, in which tourists would be blasted into space briefly before descending to…

Phenomenon caused by sunlight reflecting off Earth was first explained by Leonardo da Vinci in 16th century

Record sea surface temperatures suggest the Earth is headed for ‘uncharted territory’ in terms of sea level rise, coastal flooding and extreme weather