You Never See the Sun Where It Actually Is — Only Where It Was 8 Minutes Ago
Light takes time to travel, so every glance into space is a glance into the past. The night sky shows stars as they were years, even millennia, ago.
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Voyager Is the Farthest Human Object Ever — and It Still Calls Home Daily
Voyager 1 is over 24 billion km away, so far its radio signal takes 22+ hours to arrive, sent by a transmitter weaker than a refrigerator bulb.
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15 launches on the horizon
6 asteroids passing this week
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The Space Station LIVE
A football-field-sized lab, falling around Earth at 8 km every second.
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ISS Oleg Kononenko · Nikolai Chub · Tracy Caldwell Dyson · Matthew Dominick · Michael Barratt · Jeanette Epps · Alexander Grebenkin · Butch Wilmore · Sunita Williams
Tiangong Li Guangsu · Li Cong · Ye Guangfu
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NASA Picture of the Day
LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula
What does this image look like to you? Many see a giraffe facing right, with neck stretched high and long legs mid-stride (but some may see a squirrel instead). The featured image shows LDN 1295, also called the Giraffe Nebula, in the constellation of the …
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Don't just read the universe — play with it
The Journey
Scroll from your rooftop to the edge of the observable universe. Every stop is real.
Begin the voyage →Live Orrery
The real solar system, computed from orbital mechanics. Scrub time and watch the maths.
Run the simulation →Daily Quiz
Five questions, one round a day, same for the whole planet. Build your streak.
Play today's round →How Big Is It?
Put Earth next to the Sun. Then next to a black hole. Watch your brain give up.
Compare anything →Speak Universe
Black hole, light-year, quasar — every space term, explained like a human.
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We Can Now Hear the Universe — by Detecting Ripples in Spacetime Itself
In 2015 we caught two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, wobbling spacetime by less than the width of a proton. Einstein predicted it a century earlier.
In 1859 a Solar Storm Set Telegraph Offices on Fire — the Next One Could Cost Trillions
The Carrington Event made auroras glow over the tropics and shocked telegraph operators. A repeat today could cripple power grids and satellites worldwide.