The Latest Breaking News from Earth

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Around the world, and against all scientific evidence, a segment of the population believes that Earth’s round shape is either an unproven theory or an elaborate hoax. Polls by YouGov America in 2018 and FDU in 2022 found that as many as 11% of Americans believe the Earth might be…

ELA, the company behind NASA's historic rocket launch from Arnhem Land, says it soon hopes to execute more than 50 similar launches a year.

Alongside an image of her and her doctor, Dr Khan, she wrote: “Angel on Earth. The day I’ve been waiting for"

The favourite interview question of the world’s richest man

Non-premixed flames are those where the fuel and the oxidizer remain separate before reaction, or ignition, like a candle flame.

The housing market is still struggling with a lack of supply, meaning agents think prices will take longer to ‘come back down to earth’

A perfect storm of factors has put outrage about trans rights at the heart of the modern far right, writes Io Dodds

Japanese researchers recently announced that Ryugu carries strains of no less than 20 different amino acids — the building blocks of life itself!

Villagers see destruction everywhere and help in short supply days after an earthquake devastated a remote region of southeast Afghanistan and killed at least 1,150 people

While workers labored on a large construction site in the Gaza Strip, a security guard noticed a strange piece of stone sticking out of the earth. "I thought it was a tunnel," said Ahmad, the young guard, referring to secret passages dug by the group Hamas to help it battle…