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.
Today’s hidden fact · Sunday, August 9, 2026
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.
74 hidden facts to explore
15 launches on the horizon
6 asteroids passing this week
Daily updates, with no humans involved
Right now in space
The Space Station LIVE
A football-field-sized lab, falling around Earth at 8 km every second.
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Humans off Earth right now
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Shenzhou 23 Zhu Yangzhu · Zhang Zhiyuan · Lai Ka-ying
Soyuz MS-29 Pyotr Dubrov · Anna Kikina · Anil Menon
Crew-13 Dragon Jessica Watkins · Luke Delaney · Joshua Kutryk · Sergey Teteryatnikov
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Closest space rock this week
2015 TS238
The cosmos right now
NASA Picture of the Day
NASA Science
"Happy New Year!" No, wait, this is not a fireworks display. This image shows Nebula Pa 30, observed with the Gemini North Telescope in Hawai'i. It is likely the remnant of an old supernova explosion: separate historical records by Chinese, Japanese and Arabic…
Upcoming Rocket Launches
Long March 12 | Unknown Payload
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-25
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-35
Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-xxx ("TH-2")
H3-24 | Martian Moon eXplorer (MMX)
Ariane 64 Block 2 | Amazon Leo (LE-04)
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
GSLV Mk II | IRNSS-1L (NVS-03)
Long March 12A | Flight 2
SSLV | AayulSAT-1A & others
Vulcan VC6L | Amazon Leo (LV-01)
Soyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-36 (97P)
Ariane 62 | Metop-SG B1
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-25
Asteroids Passing Earth This Week
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2019 SD8
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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.
Learn the language →More facts to fall into
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.