The Latest Breaking News from Earth

The Perseid meteor shower should be visible across the UK from around sunset on the night of August 12.

July 2024 ends Earth's 13-month heat record streak due to El Niño waning, highlighting ongoing global warming crisis.

A Chinese Long March 6A rocket broke apart shortly after launching 18 internet satellites on Aug. 7, creating a cloud of at least 300 pieces of trackable debris.

The deep complexities of climate change raise a myriad of challenges for humanity – not least of which is how best to respond. Should we throw ourselves into slashing carbon emissions and stabilising Earth’s climate as soon as possible? Or accept our fate and go into survival mode?

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescope, scientists have investigated if nearby exoplanets could support life, or if their stars are blasting them with too much deadly high-energy radiation.

Alien: Romulus is almost here, so we're diving back into all things Alien, including the coolest spaceships the movies have had so far. These are our favorites.

The rocks will help to explain what role the mantle played in the origins of life on Earth.

Scientists just pulled the longest hunk of Earth's mantle from beneath the ocean.

The shower peaks on Sunday night, but the next few days all offer great stargazing.

By precisely tracking the orbit of over 156,000 asteroids, the ESA star-surveying satellite Gaia has potentially found over 350 previously undiscovered asteroid-moon binaries.

Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorge Neumann talks about the tech behind MSFS 2020, and some astonishing-sounding features coming in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.