Several missing with ‘no sign of life’ for hours after New Zealand landslide

Greenlanders remained anxious despite Trump ruling out taking the territory by force.Source: The Independent / Getty / PA

On January 21, 1960, a monkey named Miss Sam launched on a Little Joe rocket to help NASA test the launch escape system for its new Mercury spacecraft. This spacecraft would ultimately carry the first American astronauts into space. Miss...

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Robert Jenrick heckled at first constituency speech since Reform defectionCredit: Reform UK

On January 18, 2002, the National Science Foundation formally opened the Gemini South telescope in Chile. This became the second telescope to make up the Gemini Observatory. Its twin telescope, Gemini North, is located in Hawaii....

On January 17, 1985, the United States launched its 1,037th and final Aerobee rocket. Aerobee rockets were the first sounding rockets that the U.S. launched to research Earth's upper atmosphere. The small, suborbital rockets measured...

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Dual citizen Britons faced new passport rules - here’s what you needed to know as of 25 February 2026.Source: The Independent

On January 10, 1946, the U.S. army bounced radar signals off of Earth's moon for the first time ever. Known as "Project Diana," this was the first experiment in radio astronomy. They set up a large transmitter, receiver and antenna at a...

Guitar World's Pete Emery tests PRS' budget Tele killer, the SE NF 53.

“Dark fleets” (also called the “shadow fleet” or ships that “go dark”) are commercial vessels that deliberately hide or obscure their identity, location, ownership, cargo, or voyage history to evade sanctions, export controls, or oversight.

On January 4, 1970, NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to ever set foot on the moon. Instead of launching another crew of...

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On January 2, 2004, NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew by comet Wild 2 to collect some comet dust and bring it back to Earth. Stardust was the first robotic sample return mission of its kind. It didn't land on the comet, but it flew close...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket was rolled out to the launch pad. The massive rocket is slated to launch NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: Blue Origin | edited by Steve Spaleta

The European Space Agency's Plato spacecraft has been fully assembled in a cleanroom at ESA's Test Centre in the Netherlands. Credit: ESA – Rowan Moorkens O'Reilly (ATG Europe)

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The Sun erupted with an X1-class solar flare.NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple wavelengths. The flare caused radio blackouts on sunlit portion of Earth at the time of eruption. The blackouts occurred in...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a black hole growing at a record pace. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart

China's Shenzhou-20 completed their mission's fourth spacewalk outside the Tiangong space station. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta

The sun erupted with an X1.9-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the blast in multiple wavelengths. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams / Helio Viewer| edited...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured views of the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) molecular cloud with its NIRCam and MIRI instruments. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Ginsburg (University of Florida), N. Budaiev...

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