The Latest Breaking News from Earth

When Nasa rockets take off they are designed to fall back to Earth and land in a vast Ocean, putting no one at risk0 a system the Chinese do not use putting people at risk

From the North Pole to the racetracks in Sydney, the jury is in. Climate change is here and the new Albanese government can’t ignore it, says Dennis Atkins.

Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead, according to a recent report in The Space Review. The basic idea would be to dazzle the optical sensors of other nations’ spy satellites by flooding them with laser light.

The nightmarish possibilities of a collision with Earth motivate space agencies like NASA and the European Space Agency to scan the night for their telltale glints.

'If the answer is more politicians then what on earth is the question and why on earth is it being asked?'

The beauty of our democratic system of government is that anyone can get elected. But that feature is also a bug. We suspect we aren’t alone among Americans who watch some of the antics on Capitol Hill and think, “How on Earth did that person get elected?” Sometimes it seems…

The 1,300-foot tall rotating building is designed to complete a full circle every 20 seconds.

Oxford-built satellite Dover will be launched from Spaceport Cornwall in 2022

Scott Sheppard, an astronomer with the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii, has warned the scientific community from neglecting the so-called near-Earth objects (NEOs), which he described as “space enemy”. Sheppard has published a perspective piece in the journal Science suggesting that it is time for the space…

Rarely does a week go by without a new scientific study addressing the deteriorating condition of life on Earth. Globally, with more than 70 per cent of land and sea having already been significantly altered by humans, one million species are threatened with extinction. An alarming number of ecosystems are…

Sea creature, thought to have used tentacles to capture food, is named Auroralumina attenboroughii