We live in a cosmos.

A pale blue dot, one of eight planets, orbiting one of 100 billion stars, in one of two trillion galaxies. Here's a little of it — some of it updating live, right now.

See today's sky Who's in space now

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Humans in space now

~28,000 km/h

ISS orbital speed

8 min 20s

Sunlight's trip to Earth

Live from NASA

Picture of the day

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The neighbourhood

Our eight planets

Everything orbiting our Sun, from scorched Mercury to distant, icy Neptune.

Perspective

Numbers that don't fit in your head

Right now, overhead

People currently in space

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