space.com
space.com
Who runs space.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest science news media alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Astronomy
Measured from space.com’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit space.com01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs space.com
space.com
Get the latest space exploration, innovation and astronomy news. Space.com celebrates humanity's ongoing expansion across the final frontier.
Wikidata: space and astronomy news website
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What space.com tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
9 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- Sourcepoint
- US company
- 4 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to space.com
None of the 60 sites closest to space.com match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what space.com adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack and search numbers · 14 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 39 ms
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-border-spacing-x:
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Cookie consent
- Sourcepoint page source: cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-lon4244-LON, cache-ber1080055-BER
- Video
- JW Player page source: cdn.jwplayer.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms10680980
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1150.awsdns-15.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: CC462E6DF91492086145CA5EBDCB615E
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=SQONiBgTxRVzPPtIHjei_IUGCiAa0KxoVWFw1…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: nrpIn3a0BMjdgL7in8p4mOAxuGhxv_djn9luMGspEvE
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Tag Manager 14/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on space.com 10/20
- PHP · not on space.com 10/20
- Google Ad Manager 9/20
- WordPress · not on space.com 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on space.com 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on space.com 8/20
- Google Analytics · not on space.com 6/20
- jQuery · not on space.com 6/20
- GlobalSign 6/20
- nginx · not on space.com 5/20
- Parse.ly · not on space.com 5/20
- Mailchimp · not on space.com 5/20