Latest observations, tips, and discoveries from the cosmos
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
SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 aborted at zero seconds on 16 July after four engines failed to light. Here's what went wrong and when it flies again.
Ian Clayton
17 July 2026
A new planet has been discovered by NASA's James Webb telescope. Beta Pictoris d was found not by its light, but by the chemical fingerprint of its atmosphere.
Ian Clayton
16 July 2026
Declassified file DOE-UAP-D002 shows Manhattan Project physicist James Tuck quietly investigating the Los Alamos green fireballs. Here's what it says.
Ian Clayton
15 July 2026
The Senate Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed defence contractors over legacy UAP programmes. Here's what's known, and why the November deadline matters.
Ian Clayton
15 July 2026
The 12 August 2026 solar eclipse was the deepest seen from the UK since 1999, covering up to 96% of the Sun. Here's what happened, the times and coverage for every UK city, and when the next solar eclipse is visible from Britain.
Ian Clayton
15 July 2026
Reflect Orbital has FCC approval to launch its first space mirror and beam sunlight to Earth at night. Astronomers fear 50,000 could follow.
Ian Clayton
14 July 2026
China has landed an orbital rocket booster for the first time. The Long March 10B was caught by a net on a ship at sea, a world-first technique.
Ian Clayton
13 July 2026
NASA has UFO images it can't explain, administrator Jared Isaacman has confirmed. What he actually said, and why his Mars comment might be the bigger story.
Ian Clayton
12 July 2026
The Pentagon's fourth UFO file release covers a nuclear site lockdown, the 1949 green fireballs and new footage from near China. Here's what's really in it.
Ian Clayton
11 July 2026
NASA's TESS has discovered a new planet by bending spacetime: Gaia23bra b, a super-Jupiter 40,000 light-years away, found via gravitational microlensing.
Ian Clayton
10 July 2026
How big is the Milky Way? NASA's Chandra has found two of our galaxy's spiral arms sit about 10% further out than we thought, measured with X-ray light echoes.
Ian Clayton
9 July 2026
The oldest quasars ever discovered: ESA's Euclid telescope has found 31 from the universe's first 770 million years, including two new record-holders.
Ian Clayton
8 July 2026
Earth reached aphelion on 6 July 2026 — its farthest point from the Sun all year. So why is it the middle of summer? The answer is all about tilt.
Ian Clayton
7 July 2026
A new UFO whistleblower is talking to Congress — behind closed doors first. Why the SCIF-first strategy is a deliberate break from the Grusch playbook.
Ian Clayton
7 July 2026
Avi Loeb is leading the White House's new UFO council, and scientists are pushing back. Here's what the critics say and why it matters.
Ian Clayton
6 July 2026