Latest observations, tips, and discoveries from the cosmos
After half a century of searching, astronomers have finally detected wind blowing from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.
Venus and Jupiter meet for a stunning close conjunction on June 9, Mercury joins for a rare three-planet lineup on June 12, noctilucent clouds return, and the Strawberry Moon closes out the month.
The US government released 57 UAP sensor videos in May 2026. We reviewed all 11 DoD-flagged 'Interesting' clips. Most show nothing. Three don't.
The US government just released six declassified UAP documents and 57 videos. We've read every page. Here's what's actually in them.
May ends with a rare double event: the second full moon of the month is also a micromoon, appearing near the red star Antares low in the southern sky tonight.
Hundreds of pages of formerly Top Secret NSA documents on UFO encounters have just been released. Cold War MiG scrambles, objects brighter than the sun, and spiralling blue lights — here's what was inside.
The Pentagon's first PURSUE release covered 162 files. A US lawmaker says the second batch will make that look like 'a drop in the bucket' — and it may focus on underwater UAP encounters.
James Webb Space Telescope images M77 (NGC 1068) — revealing the active black hole, 6,000-light-year starburst ring, and hidden star formation of this Cetus Seyfert galaxy.
A newly discovered space rock will skim past Earth at just 90,000 km tonight — closer than a quarter of the Moon's distance. Here's exactly how to watch from the UK.
The universe isn't scattered randomly — it's built on a vast hidden skeleton of dark matter filaments. James Webb just gave us our best look at it yet.
The US just released 160+ declassified UAP files. Japan is already scanning them for local sightings. Here's why British UAP watchers should be paying very close attention.
On Friday 15 May, NASA's Psyche probe will swing just 4,500 km from the surface of Mars in a gravity assist that will fling it toward one of the most mysterious objects in the solar system: a metal world that may be the exposed core of a dead planet.
Six annotated NASA photographs from Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 show luminous anomalies above the lunar surface. They appear in declassified government documents. Nobody has officially explained them.
Saturn makes its first morning appearance of 2026, Venus closes the gap on Jupiter through Taurus, and a New Moon opens up the darkest skies of the month — your UK stargazing guide for May 10–16.
Released via war.gov: Six federal agents in three independent teams watched an orange UFO orb repeatedly launch red orbs at dusk. Here's what the US government slides actually show.
The US government has published its first-ever batch of complete UAP case files — covering Apollo moon missions, military infrared footage, FBI witness interviews and incidents spanning eight decades. We've gone through them all.
Venus and Jupiter are closing in on each other in the evening sky, heading for a spectacular conjunction on June 9. You can track their approach with the naked eye starting tonight.
FBI Director Kash Patel told Sean Hannity that the Bureau has delivered its 'first tranche' of UFO-related documents to a White House interagency committee — and that public release is coming 'very soon'.
A new free tool on WatchTheStars lets you scroll through the entire Solar System at logarithmic scale — complete with a speed-of-light animation, auto-tour mode, and every planet rendered with its real surface features.
Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a 500-kilometre Kuiper Belt object — far too small and cold to hold one. The discovery, published in Nature Astronomy, could rewrite what we know about the outer Solar System.
A massive, dust-choked galaxy discovered just 400 million years after the Big Bang is challenging everything astronomers thought they knew about how galaxies form.
Halley's Comet debris lights up the predawn sky, Venus and Jupiter put on an evening show, and Vesta is still at its best — your UK stargazing guide for May 4–10.
Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' opens June 12. He says it has more truth than fiction, was sparked by a real Navy UAP report, and may answer questions posed by Close Encounters in 1977. Here's the real-world backdrop that makes this film unlike any UFO movie before it.
Vesta is at opposition — its closest and brightest of 2026. At magnitude 5.7 it's right at the naked-eye limit from dark skies, and an easy binocular target from anywhere. Here's exactly how to find it in Libra tonight, and why Vesta is one of the most extraordinary objects in the solar system.