Latest observations, tips, and discoveries from the cosmos
Voyager 2 was on course to lose another instrument this year. NASA's 'Big Bang' power swap has bought the 49-year-old probe at least another year of science.
Ian Clayton
9 August 2026
We read all 900 pages of the Pentagon's fifth UFO file release so you don't have to: the 500ft Bagram triangle, 25 orbs round a US gunship, and the 'dead crewman' telegram that turned out to be a hoax.
Ian Clayton
8 August 2026
Is Venus geologically active? New ETH Zurich simulations say yes: its giant rift valleys are still growing up to 10 cm a year. Venus is far from dead.
Ian Clayton
7 August 2026
An ISS spacewalk is happening today. NASA's Jessica Meir and Anil Menon head outside at 1:35pm UK time. Here's what they're doing and how to watch live.
Ian Clayton
6 August 2026
A spent SpaceX Falcon 9 stage hit the Moon this morning near crater Einstein. Here's who was watching, what we know so far and when we'll see the new crater.
Ian Clayton
5 August 2026
The JFK UFO memo says Kennedy ordered a CIA review of UFO files ten days before Dallas. We put the famous scan next to the genuine NSAM 271.
Ian Clayton
5 August 2026
Asteroid 44 Nysa is the first three-lobed asteroid ever seen, and new telescope images show a tiny moon orbiting it. Here's what astronomers found.
Ian Clayton
4 August 2026
Six planets at dawn, a 91% solar eclipse at teatime and the Perseid peak after dark: the UK's busiest sky day of the decade, hour by hour, and what each part looked like.
Ian Clayton
4 August 2026
How did Mars lose its atmosphere? A new study caught giant plasma waves from the solar wind stripping it away, seen by NASA's MAVEN and China's Tianwen-1.
Ian Clayton
3 August 2026
The Swift rescue mission has hit trouble: the LINK spacecraft is spinning in orbit after two reaction wheels failed. Here's what went wrong and what's next.
Ian Clayton
2 August 2026
When the Perseids peak, what time to go out in the UK, where to look, and how many you'll actually see. Includes the 2027 dates and Moon, plus how the moonless 2026 peak went.
Ian Clayton
1 August 2026
NASA has confirmed the Roman Space Telescope launch date: 30 August 2026 on a Falcon Heavy. The most powerful survey telescope ever built is fuelled and ready.
Ian Clayton
31 July 2026
The Late Heavy Bombardment has been in textbooks for 52 years. The first rocks ever returned from the far side of the Moon show no sign it happened.
Ian Clayton
29 July 2026
Declassified file DOW-UAP-D017 is the US Air Force's own logbook of 209 UFO sightings around America's atomic weapons sites between 1948 and 1950.
Ian Clayton
29 July 2026
AARO's 2026 report logs 319 new UFO cases, explains 114 and leaves 191 unresolved. What those 191 have in common, what the report quietly drops, and why it came out nine months late.
Ian Clayton
28 July 2026
SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 flew on 24 July 2026 and deployed 20 Starlink V3 satellites, the first cargo Starship has ever released in space. Here's what happened.
Ian Clayton
26 July 2026
The Delta Aquariid meteor shower peaks around 29–30 July 2026, but a Full Moon spoils it. Here's how to see it from the UK, and why early August is better.
Ian Clayton
25 July 2026
Trump has directed agencies to waive NDAs for former officials with UAP knowledge. Here's what the order does, what it doesn't, and why it matters.
Ian Clayton
25 July 2026
A spent SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage will crash into the Moon on 5 August 2026 near crater Einstein. Here's when it happens and whether you can see it.
Ian Clayton
24 July 2026
Declassified CIA report FIRK-311/01638-77 describes a bright green circular object over the Soviet Sary Shagan missile range in 1973. Here's what it says.
Ian Clayton
22 July 2026
A Navy UFO swarm of roughly 100 airborne objects and two mystery boats off the Virginia coast is now under Pentagon investigation, a new AARO report reveals.
Ian Clayton
22 July 2026
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was a rare CO chondrite from beyond Jupiter, new research shows. And it was dust, not sulphur, that did the killing.
Ian Clayton
21 July 2026
Astronomers have found the first atmosphere on a rocky planet in a star's habitable zone. LHS 1140 b, 48 light-years away, is leaking helium into space.
Ian Clayton
20 July 2026
India's first privately built rocket has reached orbit. Skyroot's Vikram-1 launched from Sriharikota on 18 July carrying six payloads.
Ian Clayton
18 July 2026