Astronomy & Space News

What's happening in space, and what can you see in the sky tonight? Space news, a stargazing forecast for your city, the space photo of the day, launch countdowns and alerts, a Missions board and a sky calendar. SPACE NEWS The latest from NASA, ESA and the space press, by topic: discoveries, the night sky, launches, astronauts, the Moon, Mars, exoplanets, the solar system, telescopes, space weather, the cosmos, asteroids, life beyond Earth and more. Follow over 50 agencies, companies, missions and worlds, with a notification at most once a day for each, never at night. TONIGHT Pick your city and see if tonight is good for stargazing: clouds hour by hour, when it gets dark, the Moon, which planets are up and where to look, and the aurora chance, with an optional aurora alert. SPACE PHOTO OF THE DAY A new picture every day from NASA, Webb, Hubble and the European Southern Observatory, with the story behind it. LAUNCHES Every launch worldwide with a countdown, the webcast and reminders. Alerts for every launch or only the big ones: crewed flights, science missions and new rockets. MISSIONS Where the major probes, rovers and telescopes are, what they're doing, what comes next, and their latest headlines. SKY CALENDAR Meteor showers, eclipses, full moons and supermoons, planets at their best, close pairings, equinoxes, and big launches and mission milestones, in your time zone, with reminders. LEARN A space fact a day, and over 130 space words explained, also tappable in the news. NOT A GOVERNMENT APP Astronomy & Space News is an independent app. It is not made by, affiliated with or endorsed by NASA, ESA, NOAA, ESO, the United Nations or any government or space agency. Information from those agencies comes from their official sources, listed below. WHAT IT CAN'T DO Launch times often change. Cloud forecasts can be wrong; an aurora is never guaranteed. Mission dates are the agencies' plans. The news is written by the publishers it links to, not by us. SOURCES Government and agency sources: NASA news, missions and images (https://www.nasa.gov, https://science.nasa.gov); NASA eclipse information (https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/); European Space Agency (https://www.esa.int); NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Kp forecasts (https://www.swpc.noaa.gov); European Southern Observatory (https://www.eso.org); United Nations space days (https://www.unoosa.org). Publishers: NASA, ESA, ESA/Webb, ESA/Hubble, ESO, NOIRLab, W. M. Keck Observatory, SETI Institute, JPL, Space.com, SpaceNews, Spaceflight Now, NASASpaceflight, Universe Today, Astronomy Magazine, EarthSky, Sky & Telescope, BBC Sky at Night Magazine, Ars Technica, The Planetary Society, ScienceAlert, New Scientist, BBC News, Smithsonian Magazine, Phys.org, ScienceDaily, Space Daily, SpacePolicyOnline, Payload, Scientific American, Nature, Science, Science News, National Geographic, Live Science, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Gizmodo, The Verge, WIRED, Futurism, Inverse, Discover Magazine, IFLScience, Big Think, The Conversation, CNN, Reuters, Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, NPR, Axios, CNET, Engadget, TechCrunch, Mashable, Florida Today, Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronicle and Teslarati, found through their own feeds and Google News. Data: launches from The Space Devs' Launch Library 2; cloud forecasts from Open-Meteo; meteor showers from the International Meteor Organization; story pictures from NASA's Image and Video Library. Sky positions are worked out by the app. Free, with a single banner ad. A one-time purchase removes it.