Latest observations, tips, and discoveries from the cosmos
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 eclipse peaked at 7.13pm BST in London, 91% of the Sun covered (96% in Cornwall). City times, and the next UK eclipse: 2 August 2027.
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
China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has arrived at Kamo'oalewa, Earth's quasi-moon that may be a blasted-off chunk of our real Moon. Here's what happens next.
Ian Clayton
6 July 2026
Hayabusa2 flew past asteroid Torifune on 5 July 2026, passing about 1km away at 12,000mph, with closest approach planned for 10:30am UK time.
Ian Clayton
5 July 2026
A potentially habitable super-Earth has been found 25 light-years away. New measurements show GJ 3378b is rocky and sits in its star's Goldilocks zone.
Ian Clayton
4 July 2026
The Swift rescue mission was delayed mid-flight on 2 July after a problem stopped the last Pegasus rocket from launching. Here's what happened and what's next.
Ian Clayton
3 July 2026
The last Pegasus rocket was set to launch a robot to catch NASA's falling Swift telescope on 2 July 2026, but that attempt was stopped mid-flight.
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
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
On 27 June 2026 the June Bootids meteor shower peaked, the Moon sat beside red Antares, and Mars passed the Pleiades before dawn in the UK sky.
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