Latest observations, tips, and discoveries from the cosmos
The Swift rescue mission launches today at 10:09am UK time. The last Pegasus rocket ever will carry a robot to catch NASA's falling telescope. Here's how to follow it.
Ian Clayton
2 July 2026
UFOs over military bases forced F-22s to relocate from Langley, says ex-Pentagon official Christopher Mellon. Hundreds of incursions a year, and no answers.
Ian Clayton
2 July 2026
Your July 2026 night sky guide for the UK: Mars meets Uranus in their closest pairing until 2053, Venus passes Regulus, the Delta Aquariids arrive, and noctilucent clouds glow on the northern horizon.
Ian Clayton
1 July 2026
NASA's Moon Base just took another step forward. Administrator Jared Isaacman has unveiled a fresh round of lunar lander awards and laid out the road to landing astronauts on the Moon in 2028.
Ian Clayton
30 June 2026
Mars and the Pleiades make their closest pairing until 2034 this week. Here's when to look, where in the sky to find them, and how to see it from the UK.
Ian Clayton
29 June 2026
A 1952 'flying saucer talk' by Project Blue Book chief Edward Ruppelt has sat in a private lab's archive for 74 years. Congressman Eric Burlison says MIT Lincoln Laboratory has now agreed to hand it over.
Ian Clayton
29 June 2026
What's in the night sky tonight from the UK: the June Bootids meteor shower peaks, the Moon meets red Antares, and Mars sits beside the Pleiades before dawn.
Ian Clayton
27 June 2026
Hubble has spotted ultraviolet light from a galaxy that existed 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang — the first clear example of the kind of galaxy that cleared the early universe's fog.
Ian Clayton
26 June 2026
June's full Strawberry Moon peaks late on 29 June 2026 and rides the lowest, most golden arc of any full moon this year. Here's when and how to see it from the UK.
Ian Clayton
26 June 2026
James Webb data suggests comet 3I/ATLAS formed 10–12 billion years ago — nearly as old as the universe, with 30× the deuterium of any Solar System comet.
Ian Clayton
25 June 2026
On 25 June, two US senators, four members of Congress and Harvard's Avi Loeb gather in a Senate hearing room for an all-day, on-the-record forum on UAP — and you can watch it live from the UK.
Ian Clayton
24 June 2026
The waxing gibbous Moon sits right beside Spica, Virgo's brightest star, on the evening of 23 June 2026. Here's what time to look and where from the UK.
Ian Clayton
23 June 2026
SpaceX launched Starfall today — a disk-shaped capsule built to return up to a tonne of cargo from orbit, aimed squarely at the space-manufacturing boom.
Ian Clayton
23 June 2026
The White House has set up a UAP Governance Board and given Avi Loeb a science council to advise it. Here's what it is — and the catch nobody mentions.
Ian Clayton
23 June 2026
On 24 June, ESA's Euclid releases its deepest-ever view of the Milky Way's crowded core — a 4.8-square-degree survey built to help confirm planets around other stars.
Ian Clayton
22 June 2026
NASA's 22-year-old Swift telescope is slowly falling out of orbit. On 27 June a robot called Link launches to grab it and push it back to safety — the first rescue of its kind.
Ian Clayton
21 June 2026
The June solstice arrives at 9:24am BST on Sunday 21 June, giving the UK its longest day of the year. Here's the science, the Stonehenge connection, and what it means for stargazers.
Ian Clayton
20 June 2026
The Pentagon's third UFO release describes orange 'mother orbs' launching red orbs over a US security site, plus Cold War spy-plane secrets and a recovered Himalayan disc. I've read the lot — here's what the files really say.
Ian Clayton
13 June 2026
The crescent Moon and Venus meet just 16 arcminutes apart on 17 June 2026. What time to look from the UK, where to find them, and who sees the occultation.
Ian Clayton
12 June 2026
US lawmakers have named the 1996 Varginha UFO incident — Brazil's Roswell — in their demand for declassified files. Here's what they want, and why now.
Ian Clayton
11 June 2026
NASA has named the Artemis III crew. Randy Bresnik, Luca Parmitano, Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas will fly in 2027 to clear the way for the next Moon landing.
Ian Clayton
10 June 2026
David Grusch and four members of Congress stood on the Capitol steps today with three specific demands for President Trump — name the files, pass the law, protect the witnesses.
Ian Clayton
9 June 2026
Every 2026 full Moon date with UK times, the 28 August partial lunar eclipse, two supermoons — and why full Moon is the worst night to look.
Ian Clayton
9 June 2026
Two of the brightest objects in the night sky are almost touching this week. Here's exactly where to look and when, with Stellarium finder charts for UK observers.
Ian Clayton
8 June 2026