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
A Treasure Chest in the Carina Nebula
This treasure chest is full of stars. The featured image was obtained with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and shows a dust pilar in the Carina Nebula inside our Galaxy, roughly 7500 light-years away. It is formed by interstellar gas and dust, and shaped…
Upcoming Rocket Launches
Electron | Owl By The Dozen (StriX Launch 12)
Long March 2D | Unknown Payload
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-27
Kinetica 1 | Unknown Payload
Starship | Starlink Group 31-1 (Starship Flight 14)
Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-385
Electron | LOXSAT 1
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A
Long March 12A | Flight 2
Long March 8A | Unknown Payload
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | Kosmos (Unknown Payload)
Vulcan VC6L | Amazon Leo (LV-01)
Electron | 6x HawkEye 360
Electron | BlackSky Gen-3 6
Themis Demonstrator | T1H-1
Asteroids Passing Earth This Week
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2012 VB37
2019 GM1
2018 MC5
2017 RP15
2015 BK509
Latest space news
European Spaceflight · today
EnduroSat Raise Pushes European NewSpace Funding Above €1 Billion for September
Bulgarian satellite manufacturer EnduroSat has secured $205 million (€178 million) in new funding, pushing the total raised by European NewSpace companies in September above €1 bil…
ESA · today
Three space companies win ESA awards for excellence and innovation
NASA · today
APOD: 2026 September 17 – A Treasure Chest in the Carina Nebula
NASA · today
Summer Goes Out With a Heat Dome
NASA · today
Passion Meets Precision at NASA’s Flight Research Lab
NASA · today
NASA’s Moon Orbiter Spots New, ‘Once-in-Century’ Moon Crater
NASA · today
NASA Celebrates Restoration of Guam Station Damaged by Typhoon Mawar
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.