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.
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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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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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A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus
There was something behind the clouds. Upon close inspection, it was the Moon, which was hard to see yesterday around noon above the small village of Cessy, France. But soon, it was not only the Moon. As expected, a bright dot suddenly appeared from behind t…
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Latest space news
European Spaceflight · today
Avio Launches Second Successful Vega C Flight of 2026
Italian launch services provider Avio has successfully completed its second Vega-C flight of 2026, deploying the European Commission’s third Sentinel-3 Earth observation satellite …
ESA · today
FLEX and Sentinel-3C launch highlights
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Iceye’s global presence expands to address sovereign demand
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Relive the launch of FLEX and Sentinel-3C
NASA · today
APOD: 2026 September 15 – A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus
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Avio launches pair of climate monitoring European spacecraft to study plants, oceans and atmospheric changes
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FLEX and Sentinel-3C launched
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.