🛰️ The Cosmos Library
Dive into curated content on space missions, open APIs, telescope data, and more. This page will evolve to showcase real-time integrations and long-form research.
🌌 Astronomy Picture of the Day
Webb's View of M64
Sometimes where Hubble finds darkness, Webb sees light. An example is today’s composite images of Messier 64 (M64), a nearby spiral galaxy of many names. The dark band of dust partially blocking its bright core earned it the moniker “the Black Eye Galaxy.” Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) sees ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Briefing
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, center, meets with NASA James Webb Space Telescope Timeline Controller Matt Wasiak, left, and NASA James Webb Sp...
☄️ Near Earth Objects — Today
- 514571 1996 RY3Diameter: 219–490 mMiss distance: 55,148,461 kmVelocity: 64,762 km/h
- 2007 GU4Diameter: 78–175 mMiss distance: 20,918,863 kmVelocity: 63,219 km/h
- 2007 QE3Diameter: 267–597 mMiss distance: 13,284,379 kmVelocity: 65,481 km/h
- 2012 HH8Diameter: 168–375 mMiss distance: 52,947,646 kmVelocity: 105,696 km/h
- 2015 SO2Diameter: 44–99 mMiss distance: 72,867,510 kmVelocity: 64,298 km/h
📰 Latest Space News
NASAPassion Meets Precision at NASA’s Flight Research Lab
Long before they helped shape NASA’s future aerospace breakthroughs, Derek Abramson, Justin Hall, and Justin Link were i...
Sep 16, 2026
NASANASA’s Moon Orbiter Spots New, ‘Once-in-Century’ Moon Crater
It started as a routine data-quality check. But as Robert Wagner, a scientist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (...
Sep 16, 2026
NASANASA Celebrates Restoration of Guam Station Damaged by Typhoon Mawar
NASA celebrated the full restoration of its Guam Remote Station with a ribbon-cutting on Sept. 10, closing out more than...
Sep 16, 2026
NASANASA Watches Earth’s Weight, Finds Center of Mass
Seasonal changes redistribute enough water around Earth to shift the planet’s center of mass back and forth by fractions...
Sep 16, 2026
NASAIndonesia’s Anak Krakatau
Anak Krakatau erupts ash and volcanic gases in this Sept. 5, 2026, image acquired with the OLI (Operational Land Imager)...
Sep 16, 2026
NASACuriosity Postcard Celebrates Rover’s 5,000th Day on Mars
Description While parked at a sand ridge nicknamed “Chocolatal,” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white na...
Sep 16, 2026🚀 Upcoming Launches
Long March 12 | Unknown Payload
📍 Commercial LC-2, Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China
🗓 Sep 17, 2026, 12:30 AM UTC
Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-259
📍 Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
🗓 Sep 17, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC
Kuaizhou 11 | Unknown Payload
📍 Launch Area 95A, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
🗓 Sep 17, 2026, 02:35 AM UTC
Electron | Owl By The Dozen (StriX Launch 12)
📍 Unknown Pad, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
🗓 Sep 19, 2026, 03:15 AM UTC
🛸 Upcoming Space Events
Progress MS-35 Docking
📍 International Space Station
The Progress MS-35 spacecraft is scheduled to autonomously dock to the Poisk module of the ISS....
🗓 Sep 19, 2026, 01:46 PM UTC
Juice Earth Flyby
📍 Earth
Third flyby of ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission on its way to the Jovian system....
🗓 Sep 30, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC
BepiColombo Mercury Orbit Insertion
📍 Mercury
Orbital insertion around Mercury of the ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission....
🗓 Nov 30, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC
Solar Orbiter Venus Flyby
📍 Venus
Solar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, will perform a gravity assist maneuver with Venus on December 24, 2026. Throughout its mission it also makes ...
🗓 Dec 24, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC