The Latest Breaking News from Earth

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Prepare to defend Super Earth

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

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

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

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.