Daily Strip
Comics
Three a day. World satire, indie-builder satire, cosmic ennui, Burg life. Originals only — plus an XKCD daily for the road.
Ontario Wildfire Smoke Moves East
Gravity remains undefeated.
Heat Dome Broils the Western U.S
Gravity remains undefeated.
Fans of the Arctic
This is normal, astronomically speaking.
QAIAx Clinical Trial
The cosmos noted your concern and kept expanding.
For nearly five decades, psychologist Francine Patterson tau
The universe has filed no complaints.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches for 35th time, hauls Starlin
This is normal, astronomically speaking.
Where Venezuela’s Earthquakes Shifted the Ground
Gravity remains undefeated.
Super Typhoon Bavi
Gravity remains undefeated.
Cottonwood Fire Chars Utah
Gravity remains undefeated.
The World Cup From 250 Miles Up
Gravity remains undefeated.
An island of calm at the violent heart of the galaxy
The cosmos noted your concern and kept expanding.
Planned 1.7 million satellites 'devastating' for astronomy
Gravity remains undefeated.
How to find Uranus this week, the hardest planet I've ever t
The cosmos noted your concern and kept expanding.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink satellites from
This is normal, astronomically speaking.
LSST begins full operations with key contributions from Japa
The cosmos noted your concern and kept expanding.
Cosmic eruption caught in the act by submillimeter array's n
Gravity remains undefeated.
The rise of space AI might explain the Fermi paradox
Gravity remains undefeated.
'Logan's Run' at 50
The cosmos noted your concern and kept expanding.
Uranus, Neptune may be magma worlds, not ice giants
The cosmos noted your concern and kept expanding.
Watch live: Rocket Lab launching 'Ten Owl of Ten' mission fo
Gravity remains undefeated.
A Turquoise Tint for the Black Sea
The universe has filed no complaints.
NASA Names Sean Gallagher as Chief Information Officer
Gravity remains undefeated.
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4927
The universe has filed no complaints.
Rising Waters Swamp Lake Naivasha
Peer review pending.
Mars-like conditions fail to kill some Earth pathogens, expe
Halley's comet was unavailable for comment.
Sonic booms from meteors can release the energy of hundreds
This is normal astronomically speaking.
A private company will build and launch NASA's next Mars orb
Peer review pending.
Tropical Storm Arthur
Peer review pending.
El Niño Is Underway
The universe has filed no complaints.
NASA discussing bold mission to boost Swift space telescope
Peer review pending.
Watch SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule head home to Earth today
The universe has filed no complaints.
South African telescope detects record‑breaking signal from
The universe has filed no complaints.
Meet REMORA: The autonomous space fleet built to tag and track asteroids
Peer review pending.
World Cup Fever in Guadalajara
Halley's comet was unavailable for comment.
Air Pollution’s Daily Pulse Over the Northeast
This is normal astronomically speaking.
Tyndall’s Trail of Bergs
The universe has filed no complaints.
San Francisco’s Metropolitan Mosaic
This is normal astronomically speaking.
Mysterious signals keep coming from space: Astronomers find their 'Rosetta stone'
Peer review pending.
Elon Musk To Attend ASML's Private Tech Event To Discuss Terafab Project
The universe has filed no complaints.
Going supersonic! NASA's X-59 jet breaks sound barrier for the 1st time
Halley's comet was unavailable for comment.
Fighting Fire With Fire
This is normal astronomically speaking.
A Moonlit Earth as Seen From Artemis II
This is normal astronomically speaking.
Typhoon Jangmi
Peer review pending.
Fire’s Footprint on Santa Rosa Island
Halley's comet was unavailable for comment.
A natural chemistry laboratory in protostar shock waves
Halley's comet was unavailable for comment.
Is extracting oxygen from lunar soil the future of space exploration?
Peer review pending.
NASA Awards Contract for Johnson Space Center Infrastructure
Peer review pending.
Jaclyn Kagey Shapes Humanity’s Return to the Moon
The universe has filed no complaints.
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
The universe has filed no complaints.
China reveals 3-person Shenzhou 23 crew, including Hong Kong's 1st astronaut
The universe has filed no complaints.
SpaceX just launched Starship V3 — its most powerful megarocket yet — into space for the 1st time in spectacular Flight 12 test (video)
The universe has filed no complaints.
Tornado Draws a Jagged Line in Mississippi
The universe has filed no complaints.
New Eruption in the Bismarck Sea
Peer review pending.
Smile mission lifts off to reveal Earth's invisible shield against solar wind.
Earth's invisible shield was previously suspected, but only with smile.
Smile lifts off on quest to reveal Earth’s invisible shield against the solar wind
The universe has filed no complaints.
Watch NASA's new Mars helicopter rotor break the speed of sound (video)
Halley's comet was unavailable for comment.
NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 34th SpaceX Resupply Mission to Station
This is normal astronomically speaking.
Picturing Earth in a New Light
The universe has filed no complaints.
Astrophotographer captures remarkable view of galactic 'Eyes' with backyard telescope
Peer review pending.
Ice Moves Out of Aniak
This is normal astronomically speaking.
Study identifies geysers the JUICE mission could explore on Ganymede
Peer review pending.
New model finds the lower size limit for habitable exoplanets
Halley's comet was unavailable for comment.
Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device
Peer review pending.
NASA’s SpaceX 34th Commercial Resupply Mission Overview
The universe has filed no complaints.
Tracy Arm’s Post-Tsunami Landscape
The universe has filed no complaints.
A Sea of Spinning Clouds
Halley's comet was unavailable for comment.
On the ground or in the atmosphere? Swarm satellites help characterize and pinpoint destructive events
Peer review pending.
Ahuachapán and Its Restive Neighbors
This is normal astronomically speaking.
I grew up with parents who said they loved me but were never around, and the hardest part wasn’t the absence, it’s that I’ve spent my entire adult life mistaking inconsistency for love, choosing partners who disappear and reappear on their own schedule, and only now, at almost 40, am I realizing the pattern was set long before I had any say in it
Halley's comet was unavailable for comment.
'It was quite a light show!' NASA astronaut spies dramatic fireball from the International Space Station (photos)
This is normal astronomically speaking.
Voyager 2 sends postcard.
13 billion miles. One word.
'It was quite a light show!' NASA astronaut spies dramatic fireball from the International Space Station (photos)
Halley's comet was unavailable for comment.
Astronomers have traced the origin of cosmic buckyballs.
We are floating on a rock, naming things buckyballs, and calling it science. Bless.
Daily Strip · XKCD
Comic of the Day
Time Change
All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.