Latest observations, tips, and discoveries from the cosmos
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
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.
Halley's Comet debris lights up the predawn sky, Venus and Jupiter put on an evening show, and Vesta is still at its best — your UK stargazing guide for May 4–10.
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.
Vesta is at opposition — its closest and brightest of 2026. At magnitude 5.7 it's right at the naked-eye limit from dark skies, and an easy binocular target from anywhere. Here's exactly how to find it in Libra tonight, and why Vesta is one of the most extraordinary objects in the solar system.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
The Full Flower Moon rises on May 1, Venus blazes through Taurus, Jupiter dominates Gemini, and the Eta Aquariid meteors start building toward their peak — your UK stargazing guide for April 27 to May 3.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight under near-perfect conditions. The Moon sets early, the skies are dark, and fireballs are on the menu. Here's your hour-by-hour BST guide for the night of April 22/23.
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.
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.