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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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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Closest space rock this week
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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
Zhuque-2E | Unknown Payload
Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-481
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
H3-24 | Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-15
Electron | We're Not Hawking Around (3x HawkEye 360)
Vulcan VC6L | Amazon Leo (LV-01)
Ariane 64 Block 2 | Amazon Leo (LE-04)
GSLV Mk II | IRNSS-1L (NVS-03)
Long March 12A | Flight 2
SSLV | AayulSAT-1A & others
Electron | The Sea God Surveys (iQPS Launch 9)
Electron | The Mountain God Rises (iQPS Launch 10)
Soyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-36 (97P)
Ariane 62 | Metop-SG B1
Asteroids Passing Earth This Week
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679786 2020 QG3watched by NASA
2020 QG3watched by NASA
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678976 2018 EH4watched by NASA
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Latest space news
ESA · today
Press conference: ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot returns to Europe
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has returned to Europe following her 237-day εpsilon mission aboard the International Space Station. A press conference with Sophie and Director of Huma…
European Spaceflight · today
Norway Details Funding Allocation for Second Andøya Launch Pad
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An Impact Structure With Legs
Spaceflight Now · today
Live coverage: NASA, SpaceX to launch new solar arrays, 6,300 pounds of cargo to the space station
Spaceflight Now · today
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch 27 Starlink satellites into orbit from California
NASASpaceflight · today
CRS-35 set to launch to ISS with final iROSA arrays, experiments, and other items
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.