Deep Field
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Every three hours this site reads 51 feeds from NASA, ESA and the observatories, files what comes back into eleven subjects, and works out the rest for itself — what is overhead, what you could see through what you own, and from where on Earth.
Satellites & Orbit
Students in Cornell’s Space Systems Design Studio have published results from two lightsail experiments (Alpha CubeSat and Sailing to the Stars) built by engineering students at Cornell University.
The Moon
The Moon is 94% lit and up for most of the night, which is the worst sky of the month for anything faint. It is also the best week of the month to look at the Moon itself, which is the compensation nobody takes. It is new in 11 days.
The planets
Mercury and Venus are in the evening sky after sunset; Mars, Jupiter and Saturn come up before dawn.
Worth going out for
An open cluster in Perseus, near the meridian around midnight and straightforward in 10×50 binoculars from a Bortle 7 or better. A wide, loose scattering that wants low power and a wide field, and is spoiled by anything else.
mag 5.5 · 21.8 mag/□″ · 35′ · RA 2h 42m
Computed from the clock, and true from anywhere on Earth. Anything that depends on your latitude is on the Overhead page rather than guessed at here.
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have rewritten a small part of Oklahoma's geologic history with global implications for ancient…
NASA and Boeing officials announced Monday that they have upgraded and redesigned Starliner following a dicey crewed test flight in 2024, which…
The Super Heavy first stage booster, generating some 16 million pounds of thrust — twice the power of NASA's Space Launch System…
SpaceX sent its Starship super-rocket on its first orbital flight — a shorter-than-planned test mission that put operational Starlink satellites into orbit…
On Monday, NASA and Boeing provided an update on the company’s Starliner spacecraft, including adding additional crew missions and certifying a new…
On Sept. 30, 1946, five National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) engineers arrived at Muroc Army Airfield in California’s high desert to…
Astronomers have cataloged billions of stars and hundreds of billions of galaxies. We have found thousands of planets orbiting stars.
Something deep inside Mars has scientists looking for clues to its internal evolution.
Expedition 75 began the week scanning veins, checking out space workout gear, and testing specialized suits to ease the adjustment to Earth’s…
The flight did not go exactly as planned, but SpaceX’s Starship Integrated Flight Test-14 did make it into orbit for the first…
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A commercial mission to boost NASA’s Swift observatory concluded without raising the spacecraft’s orbit, but the agency and industry vendor gained valuable…
The moon no longer has a global magnetic field, but lunar rocks and soils still contain records of ancient magnetism.
Both stellar-mass black holes and supermassive black holes can produce ionized jets streaming from their poles.
Marking a significant expansion in the number of signatories to the Artemis Accords, NASA welcomed Albania, Croatia, Côte d’Ivoire, and San Marino…
Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated on Sept. 28, 2026, with ticketing information for the public.
Way back in the earliest epochs of the Universe, the Big Bang was followed by a period called the Cosmic Dark Ages.
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Four crew members are set to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to perform research…
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NASA isn't saying much. The problem may be temporary.
NASA isn't saying much. The problem may be temporary.
L. C. Mayorga et al 2026 AJ 172 87 Analysis of Cassini spectra of Titan suggests that JWST is unlikely to identify…
New radio observations provide the best view yet of the WISPIT 2 planetary system, revealing spiral wakes driven by a growing young…
This nighttime view of the United States, dotted with city lights looking toward New York City (center), was taken at approximately 3:40…
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer ( Juice ) skimmed the very outer edge of Earth’s atmosphere on 28 September…
ORLANDO, FL — September 28th, 2026 — Space is rapidly becoming a practical business tool for industries far beyond aerospace, as satellite…
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Falcon 9 Block 5 · SpaceX
Add to calendarDaylight at the pad Visible close in as a bright point and a contrail; nothing at distance.
Space Launch Complex 40
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Go
Falcon 9 Block 5 · SpaceX
Add to calendarDaylight at the pad Visible close in as a bright point and a contrail; nothing at distance.
Space Launch Complex 4E
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Go
Falcon Heavy · SpaceX
Add to calendarFull darkness at the pad A bright moving star and the engine plume. Spectacular near the pad, subtle at distance.
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Go
Unknown Pad
SaxaVord Spaceport
TBD
Falcon 9 Block 5 · SpaceX
Add to calendarFull darkness at the pad A bright moving star and the engine plume. Spectacular near the pad, subtle at distance.
Space Launch Complex 4E
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
TBC
Every story is filed by subject and every subject publishes its own Atom feed. Take the two you care about and ignore the rest — that is the whole idea.
Everything above is what happened, gathered from 51 feeds and credited to whoever reported it. Every headline here links straight back to the publication that wrote it, because a summary that replaces the click is a summary that has taken something.
Everything else is worked out here. The subjects are ordered by the part of the spectrum each is really observed in — radio at the red end for the satellites overhead, ultraviolet at the violet end for the early universe — and coloured to match, which is the one organising idea the site has. A story is filed by a hand-built vocabulary for each subject, weighted by how decisive a term is: event horizon settles the question, orbit barely counts. Anything that does not clearly belong anywhere stays untagged rather than being pushed somewhere to fill a gap.
The rest of the site is not news at all, and is the part worth staying for.
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