Latest observations, tips, and discoveries from the cosmos
A year before flying saucers, a thousand 'ghost rockets' were reported over Scandinavia. A declassified US intelligence review shows what 1947 really knew.
Ian Clayton
23 August 2026
James Webb has found 'hidden stars' in the universe's first galaxies. Some may be four times more massive than we thought. Here's what that means.
Ian Clayton
23 August 2026
The ODNI UFO memo orders every US spy agency to waive NDAs for UAP witnesses and name a disclosure contact within 30 days. Here's what it says, plainly.
Ian Clayton
22 August 2026
NASA has called off the Swift rescue mission after the LINK spacecraft's spin proved unfixable. The telescope will now fall back to Earth. Here's what happened.
Ian Clayton
21 August 2026
The fastest star in the Milky Way has been found. S301 circles our galaxy's black hole at 25,000 km/s, so close it feels the black hole's spin.
Ian Clayton
20 August 2026
The Tremonton UFO film was dismissed as seagulls by the CIA. The Navy's newly declassified analysis measured 1,479g and ruled out birds, aircraft and balloons.
Ian Clayton
20 August 2026
The Colares UFO attacks of 1977 sent Air Force medics into the Amazon. Their two-page psychiatrist report blamed adrenaline and fear. Here's what it says.
Ian Clayton
19 August 2026
China's Zhuque-3 rocket has landed its booster on legs in the Gobi Desert, making LandSpace the first private Chinese company to recover a rocket.
Ian Clayton
19 August 2026
The Helix Nebula is being recycled. A new telescope in Chile has found 22 shock waves where a dying star's debris slams into interstellar space.
Ian Clayton
18 August 2026
Declassified 1948 Air Force UFO files show intelligence officers writing that 'vehicles from another planet' had not been ignored. What the full file says.
Ian Clayton
18 August 2026
A black hole shredding a massive star has produced the most powerful stellar explosion ever recorded, releasing as much energy as 400 billion Suns.
Ian Clayton
17 August 2026
A stellar stream has been found outside the Milky Way for the first time. The faint trail of stars gives astronomers a new way to map dark matter.
Ian Clayton
16 August 2026
August 2026 night sky guide for the UK: darkness returns, Saturn climbs high after midnight, Venus hits greatest elongation, and a deep lunar eclipse lands on 28 August.
Ian Clayton
16 August 2026
Declassified CIA UFO files show the agency quietly investigated a science fiction magazine in 1948, until a red spider from Mars ended the whole thing.
Ian Clayton
15 August 2026
Space mirror light pollution would be severe, a new study finds. Reflect Orbital's mirrors would shine 40 times brighter than the full moon in the beam.
Ian Clayton
15 August 2026
The 28 August 2026 partial lunar eclipse from the UK began at 3:33am BST and peaked at 5:12am, with the Moon 93% eclipsed, low in the west-south-west.
Ian Clayton
14 August 2026
New FBI UFO files describe federal agents watching red lights and black-hot objects over the western US in 2026, and a watch that gained 25 minutes.
Ian Clayton
13 August 2026
What happened during the 12 August 2026 solar eclipse, how UK observers experienced it, and when the next eclipse will be visible from Britain.
Ian Clayton
13 August 2026
The Manchester Airport UFO near miss of January 1995 is still officially unresolved. Here's what Airmiss Report 2/95 says, straight from the MOD's own file.
Ian Clayton
12 August 2026
The sharpest image of the Sun ever captured shows tiny whirlpools swirling across its surface, and they may help solve the Sun's biggest mystery.
Ian Clayton
11 August 2026
A metal sphere, a four-metre crater and a dead crewman. The 1963 Brazil UFO story is back, and the same Pentagon files that revived it also show it never happened. Here's the evidence.
Ian Clayton
10 August 2026
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
The Pentagon's fifth UFO file release, 7 August 2026: 41 files, from a 500ft triangle over Bagram to 25 'cold orbs' round a US gunship. What stands up.
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