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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Crew-12 Dragon Jessica Meir · Jack Hathaway · Sophie Adenot · Andrey Fedyaev
Shenzhou 23 Zhu Yangzhu · Zhang Zhiyuan · Lai Ka-ying
Soyuz MS-29 Pyotr Dubrov · Anna Kikina · Anil Menon
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Closest space rock this week
2018 SP2
The cosmos right now
NASA Picture of the Day
The Ghosts of Five Supernovas
The ghosts of five supernovas haunt this extraordinary image. It was acquired at Oukaïmeden Observatory in Morocco with approximately 200 hours of observations and shows a large patch of the sky, equivalent to the area of one thousand full moons tiled togeth…
Upcoming Rocket Launches
Long March 6A | Unknown Payload
Electron | Owlright, Owlright, Owlright (StriX Launch 13)
Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-385
Starship | Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-13
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 18 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
SR75 | Flight 2
Ariane 64 Block 2 | Amazon Leo (LE-04)
Nuri | NeonSat-2 to 6
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-25
GSLV Mk II | IRNSS-1L (NVS-03)
H3-24 | Martian Moon eXplorer (MMX)
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 5 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-35
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A
Asteroids Passing Earth This Week
2018 SP2
2016 LY8
2008 ST
2018 HN
2014 QJ33
2010 TW54
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ESA · today
Record participation in ESA’s Industry Space Days 2026
On 16–17 September, the European Space Agency (ESA) hosted a record 3100 visitors from Europe’s space industry for a two-day Industry Space Days (ISD) event at ESA’s ESTEC technica…
European Spaceflight · today
ESA Awards RFA €2.7 Million in New Funding for SaxaVord Operations
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APOD: 2026 September 24 – The Ghosts of Five Supernovas
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Cloudy Cloak Over the Northwest
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Swift Rescue Mission May Not Have Succeeded, But No Regrets
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SpaceX stack Starship and Super Heavy for first orbital flight
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.