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Falling space debris: A growing threat

You probably won't get hit by a chunk of falling satellite. But odds are rising that someone will

Salon

Science news this week: Controversy around the dire wolf 'de-extinctions' and a 3D hologram breakthrough

April 12, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

LiveScience

Auroras could spice up April's Full Pink 'micromoon' this weekend

There’s a chance to see both a Full Pink micromoon and the northern lights in the sky for some this weekend.

Space

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Trump administration could slash NASA science budget by 50%, reports suggest

Budget passback documents reportedly suggest the White House wants to cut NASA's budget by half — possibly closing down Goddard Space Flight Center.

Space

Private Astroscale probe will refuel Space Force satellites high above Earth on landmark 2026 mission

Astroscale and Orbit Fab are teaming up to refuel U.S. Space Force satellites in geostationary orbit high above Earth, demonstrating a capability that could reshape space operations.

Space

Elusive neutrinos' mass just got halved — and it could mean physicists are close to solving a major cosmic mystery

Physicists have set a new upper limit on the mass of neutrinos. And the finding could poke a big hole in the Standard Model of particle physics.

LiveScience

The Helldivers 2 board game leans into "the cooperative chaos of the video game," the designers promise

Prepare to defend Super Earth

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I went to my first ever Tallinn Music Week - here are 5 things I learned (and the best new band I discovered)

From supping honey beer in Middle Earth taverns to watching face-ripping metallic hardcore bands, Tallinn Music Week 2025 had it all

Louder

NASA’s autopsy of planet swallowed by a star gives astronomers a surprise

Planets are eaten by dying stars as they turn into red giants and expand. Earth will be eaten by the sun in billions of years

The Independent UK

The largest flood in Earth’s history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean in just a few years

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down a kilometre-high slope towards the empty Mediterranean Sea, excavating a skyscraper-deep trough on its way.

The Conversation

The sun just leaked a huge amount of helium-3 — the rare isotope scientists want to harvest on the moon

The sun was caught bursting out a huge quantity of helium-3, an isotope that's scarce in our solar system.

Space

US company to use giant spinning cannon to blast hundreds of pancake-like 'microsatellites' into space

Rocket start-up SpinLaunch wants to catapult hundreds of flattened "microsatellites" into space at once, using a cannon-like machine that accelerates objects by spinning them. The first orbital demonstration is scheduled for next year.

LiveScience

The New Space Age Takes Off

From fast broadband to SOS texting, space has never been more embedded in peoples’ lives. The future is even more exciting for rockets, satellites and emerging space tech.

Kiplinger

Wilkes Land crater: The giant hole in East Antarctica's gravitational field likely caused by a meteorite

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence suggests the subglacial hole is an impact crater measuring 315 miles across.

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The Independent UK

Nasa astronaut releases videos of dazzling green auroras captured from space

One of the videos shows aurora in the form of ‘green vaporous turbulence’

Inverse

'Doctor Who' Season 2 Release Date, Time, Plot, and Trailer for the Sci-Fi Show

We've come the long way round. Here's everything you need to know about the 'Doctor Who' Season 2 premiere, "The Robot Revolution."

Space

See gorgeous green auroras dance over Earth in dazzling ISS astronaut video

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured two amazing videos of the auroras from his unique perch above Earth last week.

LiveScience

Mercury is weird because of a 'hit-and-run' incident in its youth

"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure without needing to consider multiple collisions or extremely rare conditions."

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Evening Standard

Why does the moon look orange and what is the next full moon called?

You might have spotted an orange moon as the Pink Moon approaches

Space

NASA's Deep Space Network is getting a new dish to help distant spacecraft phone home

NASA's Deep Space Network is getting a new dish. This one will be at the DSN facility in Canberra, Australia.

LiveScience

Rare quadruple supernova on our 'cosmic doorstep' will shine brighter than the moon when it blows up in 23 billion years

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine brighter than anything currently visible in the night sky. But humanity — and our planet — will be long gone before this happens.

The Independent UK

La Nina exits after three weak months, leaving Earth in neutral climate state

La Nina, the natural cooling flip side of the better-known and warmer El Nino climate phenomenon, has dwindled away after just three weak months

Euronews

Kazakhstan discovers rare earths reserve said to be third-largest in the world

A significant rare earth elements deposit has been found in Kazakhstan's Karagandy, with potential reserves of 20 million tonnes. Further exploration is required.

Space

Trump administration's NOAA layoffs affected the space weather service that tracks solar storms

Experts share why Trump-mandated cuts to the NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center share is a big deal.

Space

April's Full Pink Moon will rise as a 'micromoon' this weekend — what to expect from the smallest full moon of 2025

Discover when, how and where to watch the smallest full moon of the year take center stage on April 12.

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