The Latest Breaking News from Earth

In the blockbuster fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, one of the principal antagonists, the wicked Adar, diverted a river into the labyrinth of tunnels under a dormant Mount Doom to trigger an explosive volcanic eruption. This transformed the surrounding landscape into the bleak lands…

McDivitt commanded two early Gemini and Apollo missions in the 1960s that played a key role in preparing for the moon landing in 1969.

From incrementally rising temperatures and seas to an influx of natural disasters, the climate right now certainly isn't the same as it was before the industrial era

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An isolated bacterium discovered in an Algerian cave might be a solution to wheat gluten sensitivity, found joint research by Sweden’s Umea University and Algeria’s Constantine University. Gluten sensitivity is the body’s inability to digest or break down the gluten found in wheat and other grains. People with this digestive…

Would you rather be buried or cremated when you die?

More than 50 meteors an hour may be seen as Earth ploughs through fragments left by comet

Within western society, maps are often perceived as scientific, neutral and objective tools. Map making has always been shaped by our social and cultural relationships to the land. In the last 20 years, approaches to map creation have become much more reliant on photographic and digital technologies, including Google Earth.

The spaceship is headed straight for the sun.

We recently discovered the perfect place to uncover the long-term history of our receding moon.

Dark matter discoverer Fritz Zwicky claimed to fire small pellets beyond Earth. But the truth is much murkier.