Latest observations, tips, and discoveries from the cosmos
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.
Ian Clayton
16 May 2026
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.
Ian Clayton
16 May 2026
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.
Ian Clayton
13 May 2026
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.
Ian Clayton
10 May 2026
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.
Ian Clayton
10 May 2026
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.
Ian Clayton
8 May 2026
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.
Ian Clayton
8 May 2026
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'.
Ian Clayton
7 May 2026
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.
Ian Clayton
6 May 2026
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.
Ian Clayton
6 May 2026
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.
Ian Clayton
4 May 2026
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.
Ian Clayton
2 May 2026
Vesta reached opposition on 2 May 2025 at magnitude 5.7, right at the naked-eye limit. It was back at opposition on 13 October 2026; the next is in late January 2028.
Ian Clayton
2 May 2026
Eta Aquariid meteors peak before dawn on 5–6 May: fragments of Halley's Comet hitting the atmosphere at 150,000 mph. Here's your complete UK guide to where, when and how to watch, including tips for beating the moonlight.
Ian Clayton
1 May 2026
For three years, astronomers have been baffled by hundreds of mysterious red objects in JWST's images. Now Chandra has detected X-rays from one, and the explanation is unlike anything in the known universe.
Ian Clayton
1 May 2026
NASA's moon astronauts stood in the Oval Office as the agency confirmed Artemis III for late 2027 and a crewed lunar landing in 2028, with the SLS rocket already at Kennedy Space Center.
Ian Clayton
30 April 2026
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna has personally reviewed classified materials of 'nonhuman origin' and is promising a public press conference once declassification completes. Here's exactly what she claimed, and what it means for UAP disclosure.
Ian Clayton
30 April 2026
Kacey Musgraves watched three glowing orbs trail her flight from Texas to Nashville, changing colour, forming triangle patterns and keeping pace for 45 minutes. When she landed, both pilots told her: 'We see these every single night.'
Ian Clayton
29 April 2026
Two independent research teams have found the strongest evidence yet for Population III stars, the very first generation of stars to form after the Big Bang, hiding in a tiny clump of gas 13.4 billion light-years away.
Ian Clayton
28 April 2026
SpaceX's triple-core beast roars back to life today, hurling a 6.6-ton satellite toward geostationary orbit and sticking a double booster landing at Cape Canaveral.
Ian Clayton
27 April 2026
Blue Origin reused a New Glenn booster for the first time on 19 April, but an upper-stage engine failure put the customer's satellite in a useless orbit. The FAA has grounded the rocket.
Ian Clayton
25 April 2026
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed image of the planetary nebula where cosmic buckyballs, hollow spheres of 60 carbon atoms, were originally discovered. The structures are breathtaking.
Ian Clayton
25 April 2026
NASA celebrated Hubble's 36th anniversary by revisiting the Trifid Nebula, and by comparing the new image with one taken 29 years ago, astronomers can see a stellar nursery evolving on human timescales.
Ian Clayton
24 April 2026
A chemistry experiment never before performed beyond Earth has revealed 21 organic molecules in 3.5-billion-year-old Martian rock, seven of them detected on Mars for the first time, including a DNA precursor.
Ian Clayton
23 April 2026