Stay Connected to the Cosmos
- The Overview Effect: What Astronauts Feel When They First See Earth from Space
- The Perseid Meteor Shower Is Coming — Here’s How to See It at Its Best
- How a Spacesuit Works: The Wearable Spacecraft Keeping Astronauts Alive
- Could There Be Life on Europa? Scientists Think It’s Worth Finding Out
- Artemis and the Return to the Moon: What’s Different This Time
- Black Holes Explained: From Theory to the First Real Photograph
- The Voyager Probes Are Still Out There — and Still Talking to Us
- Why Talking to Mars Takes 24 Minutes (And What We’re Doing About It)
- A Day in the Life Aboard the International Space Station
- What Happens at the Edge of the Universe?
The James Webb Space Telescope Changed Everything
One year of images rewrote what we thought we knew about the early universe.
Inside the Milky Way: Our Galaxy Up Close
You live in one of 2 trillion galaxies. Here’s what makes yours remarkable.
The Night the Sky Fell: Watching a Meteor Storm
Once a generation, the Leonids don’t shower — they pour. Here’s how to be ready.
What the James Webb Telescope Sees That Hubble Never Could
Infrared light, a mirror seven times larger, and a position a million miles from Earth. Webb doesn’t just take prettier pictures — it sees further back in time than any instrument in human history.
The Numbers Behind the Missions
600+
Humans in Space
since Yuri Gagarin’s first flight in 1961 aboard Vostok 1
9 out of 9
Planets Visited
every world in our solar system reached by spacecraft
24×
Humans to the Moon
across six Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972
Perseverance Has Been on Mars for Over 1,000 Days
The rover has driven more than 20 miles, collected 23 rock samples, and captured over 500,000 images. Here’s what it has taught us — and what it’s still looking for beneath the Martian surface.
