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Landslides ploughed into a home and a campsite in northern New Zealand on Thursday, killing at least two people and leaving others missing under tonnes of mud. Rescuers used heavy machinery to dig through the mass of earth that moved after heavy overnight rain in New Zealand's North Island.

Our planet is unique for its ability to sustain abundant life. From studies of the rock record, scientists believe life had already emerged on Earth at least 3.5 billion years ago and probably much earlier.

The lunar crescent will disappear below the horizon before midnight on Jan. 22.

Watch the final live stream of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 22 January 2026. Join the Virtual Telescope Project to see this rare visitor exit our Solar System forever.

"In our solar system, the most massive moon is Ganymede, which is still extremely small compared to what we are inferring here."

NASA closed sign-up for sending names to the Moon on Artemis II. Learn what happens to your name on the SD card during the 2026 flyby: from Earth launch to lunar orbit and Pacific splashdown

Suni Williams' retirement renews focus on astronaut health, long missions, and the limits of human spaceflight.

The European Union is pouring financial resources into Europe’s largest known rare-earth project to reduce its dependence on China for critical raw materials. But how does the same EU legal framework threaten to halt this strategic push?

Oil shaped the last century, but rare earths may shape the next. As economies electrify and AI expands, control over critical materials is becoming a new source of global power.

After nearly three decades of service, NASA astronaut Suni Williams has officially retired from the space agency.