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.

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