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Archive for April 23rd, 2024

Slovenia signs NASA’s Artemis Accords for cooperative space exploration

April 23rd, 2024 by

Slovenia signed NASA’s Artemis Accords on April 19, becoming the 39th country to affirm their cooperation in future space endeavors to the moon and beyond.

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Watch 4 solar flares erupt from the sun at nearly the same time in extremely rare event (video)

April 23rd, 2024 by

The quadruple eruption was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.

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ESA graduates the ‘Hoppers’: Europeans, Australian pass astronaut basic training

April 23rd, 2024 by

The “Hoppers” — five European astronauts and the first astronaut from the Australian Space Agency — are now ready to “hop” into their first flight assignments, having completed basic training.

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Watch the Full Pink Moon 2024 bloom in the night sky tonight

April 23rd, 2024 by

The Full Pink Moon of April 2024 steals the show tonight as it crosses the nighttime sky from dusk until dawn.

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SpaceX launching 23 Starlink satellites from Florida this evening

April 23rd, 2024 by

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will send 23 more of the company’s Starlink internet satellites skyward today (April 23), if all goes according to plan.

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Watch Rocket Lab launch new NASA solar sail tech to orbit today

April 23rd, 2024 by

Rocket Lab will launch a South Korean Earth-observation satellite and new NASA solar-sailing tech this evening (April 23), and you can watch it live.

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Pluto’s heart-shaped scar may offer clues to the frozen world’s history

April 23rd, 2024 by

How Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia formed remains unknown, but researchers have imagined a body about the size of Switzerland crashing into Pluto at a shallow angle.

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Cosmic fountain is polluting intergalactic space with 50 million suns’ worth of material

April 23rd, 2024 by

Astronomers have mapped a 20,000-light-year-long fountain of gas blasting from a nearby galaxy and polluting intergalactic space at 450 times the top speed of a jet fighter.

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