Latest observations, tips, and discoveries from the cosmos
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.
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.
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.
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.
The northern horizon stays live tonight. After the first cloud from the 30 June X1.1 solar flare sparked G1–G2 (Minor to Moderate) storming over the weekend, a second coronal mass ejection is now inbound and forecast to reach Earth late on Sunday 5 July or into Monday 6 July. The Met Office expects Unsettled to Active conditions through the day, then a likelihood of further G1–G2 storming and a chance of isolated G3 (Strong) intervals once that cloud arrives — enough to bring aurora into play for Scotland, Northern Ireland and much of northern England during Sunday night's short window of darkness. The catch is still the calendar: barely two weeks past the solstice, the UK gets almost no true darkness, so timing is everything. Here's exactly when and where to look.
Hayabusa2 flies past asteroid Torifune today at 10:30am UK time, passing just 1km away at 12,000mph. Here's what's happening and how to watch live.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.