Latest observations, tips, and discoveries from the cosmos
The Lyrid meteor shower peaked on the night of 22/23 April 2026, with the Moon setting early, dark skies after that and a chance of fireballs.
Ian Clayton
22 April 2026
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is fully assembled and ready for its journey to space. With 200 times Hubble's field of view, it will map billions of galaxies, discover thousands of exoplanets, and probe the mystery of dark energy.
Ian Clayton
21 April 2026
Astronomers have captured a supermassive black hole reawakening after 100 million years of silence, blasting plasma jets nearly a million light-years across space in one of the most dramatic 'reborn' black hole events ever recorded.
Ian Clayton
20 April 2026
Blue Origin launched a previously-flown New Glenn booster for the first time today, a milestone that closes the gap with SpaceX and could reshape how we think about the cost of getting to space.
Ian Clayton
19 April 2026
NASA has formally greenlighted its support for ESA's Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, confirming a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch no earlier than late 2028, and making it SpaceX's first-ever mission to Mars.
Ian Clayton
18 April 2026
Speaking at a public event in Phoenix on April 18, President Trump confirmed the Pentagon's UFO file review has turned up 'many very interesting documents', and promised the first batch will be released 'very, very soon'.
Ian Clayton
18 April 2026
The Lyrids are the oldest meteor shower on record, watched by humans for 2,700 years. They return every April with bright, fast meteors and the occasional fireball. Here's how, when and where to watch them from the UK.
Ian Clayton
17 April 2026
The April 14 deadline for 46 classified UAP videos has passed with nothing released. Rep. Luna says 'nobody passed the letter to the appropriate authorities. How convenient.' The Pentagon says it's working on it. The pattern continues.
Ian Clayton
16 April 2026
Rep. Tim Burchett introduced a bill on 6 April to abolish AARO, and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna set a 14 April deadline for 46 classified UAP videos.
Ian Clayton
13 April 2026
Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) reaches perihelion on 19 April and could become visible to the naked eye. Here's everything you need to know: including when, where, and how to spot it from the UK.
Ian Clayton
11 April 2026
The lunar flyby is complete. Orion has swung around the Moon, broken the human distance record, witnessed Earthrise over the far side, and is now coasting back toward Earth. Splashdown: April 11.
Ian Clayton
7 April 2026
Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) disintegrated six hours before perihelion on 4 April, reaching magnitude –0.6 before breaking apart. The hoped-for Easter Comet display will not happen: here's what the SOHO data tells us.
Ian Clayton
5 April 2026
Congress gave the Pentagon a hard deadline to release 46 classified UAP videos: Lake Huron shootdown footage, Coast Guard Tic Tac recordings, and a spherical craft filmed near a US submarine. The deadline passed. Here's what the videos show and why they're still hidden.
Ian Clayton
4 April 2026
Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) reaches perihelion tomorrow, skimming just 161,000 km above the Sun's surface. SOHO is already watching. Here's how to follow the action, and how to spot it if it survives.
Ian Clayton
3 April 2026
It happened. At 6:24 p.m. ET on April 1, 2026, NASA's SLS rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying four astronauts on humanity's first crewed voyage to the Moon in 54 years.
Ian Clayton
2 April 2026
Comet MAPS was due to skim just 161,000 km above the Sun's surface on 4 April 2026, but it disintegrated about six hours before perihelion.
Ian Clayton
1 April 2026
On 26 March 2026 the waxing gibbous Moon passed Jupiter high in the evening sky, a naked-eye pairing framed by Gemini's twin stars, seen from the UK.
Ian Clayton
26 March 2026
AARO's caseload has surged past 2,000 reports. A secret workshop brought 40 government, academic, and civilian researchers together. And a new whitepaper reveals the Pentagon is using AI to hunt for patterns in decades of sighting data.
Ian Clayton
25 March 2026
Scientists re-examining 1950s Palomar Observatory sky survey photographs have found mysterious objects that appeared and vanished before any human satellite existed. Their peer-reviewed conclusions are impossible to dismiss.
Ian Clayton
23 March 2026
Astronomers have quietly announced the discovery of 15 new moons, 11 for Saturn and 4 for Jupiter. It brings Saturn's total to 285 and Jupiter's to 101, and the solar system's combined moon count to 442.
Ian Clayton
22 March 2026
On the morning of 17 March 2026, a 7-ton asteroid blazing at 45,000 mph lit up the skies from Wisconsin to Maryland before exploding above Ohio with the force of 250 tons of TNT, and dropping real meteorites into a field south of Cleveland.
Ian Clayton
20 March 2026
The US government quietly registered two new .gov domains, alien.gov and aliens.gov, on March 18, 2026. The White House's only response: a smiling alien emoji and 'Stay tuned.'
Ian Clayton
19 March 2026
A solar flare from AR4392 launched a CME at Earth, due on the evening of 19 March 2026, giving Scotland and northern England a forecast chance of aurora.
Ian Clayton
18 March 2026
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to confirm a new type of planet that shouldn't be able to exist, a world where the entire surface is a permanent ocean of molten rock, kept alive by a sulphurous atmosphere.
Ian Clayton
17 March 2026