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A full Wolf Moon supermoon rises behind Glastonbury Tor as people gather to watch the first full moon of the year on January 3, 2026 in Glastonbury, England.

What is a Snow Moon? How to see February 2026’s full moon

Tech 3 days ago By Noora Mykkanen

Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth.

A severe solar storm is on its way and it could knock out Earth's satellites

Tech January 20, 2026 By Josh Milton

Concept showing what the hotel could look like.

Moon to get first hotel by 2032 (but don't look at the price tag)

Tech January 15, 2026 By Luke Alsford

Schoolgirl who won Metro space competition wins award for space engineering 17 years later

Girl inspired by winning Metro space competition becomes award-winning engineer

UK January 14, 2026 By Luke Alsford

Nasa astronauts to be sent home after medical issue

NASA launches urgent evacuation of the ISS after 'medical emergency' in space

World January 9, 2026 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

Comet 3I/ATLAS streaks across a dense star field in this image captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South at Cerro Pach'n in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and operated by NSF NOIRLab.

We might finally know whether interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was an ‘alien spacecraft’

Tech January 6, 2026 By Josh Milton

Alamy Live News. 3DDN7HJ Glastonbury, Somerset, UK. 2nd January 2026. UK Weather. The almost full Wolf Moon moon rises up in to the clear evening afternoon from behind St Michael?s Tower on Glastonbury Tor at Glastonbury in Somerset as a large crowd watches. This months full moon is on 3rd January will be a supermoon. Picture Credit: Graham Hunt/Alamy Live News This is an Alamy Live News image and may not be part of your current Alamy deal . If you are unsure, please contact our sales team to check.

What is a Wolf Moon and how to see 2026's first full moon tomorrow

Tech 3 days ago By Jen Mills

Alamy Live News. 3DDN7HJ Glastonbury, Somerset, UK. 2nd January 2026. UK Weather. The almost full Wolf Moon moon rises up in to the clear evening afternoon from behind St Michael?s Tower on Glastonbury Tor at Glastonbury in Somerset as a large crowd watches. This months full moon is on 3rd January will be a supermoon. Picture Credit: Graham Hunt/Alamy Live News This is an Alamy Live News image and may not be part of your current Alamy deal . If you are unsure, please contact our sales team to check.

What is a Wolf Moon and how to see 2026's first full moon tomorrow

Tech January 3, 2026 By Jen Mills

A scene from a NASA animation showing two neutron stars colliding. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Metro grab from: http://www.space.com/27872-strange-matter-neutron-stars.html

The universe could end very differently than previously thought

UK December 30, 2025 By Sam Courtney-Guy

Could we defend ourselves against aliens?

Could Earth defend itself if aliens paid us all a visit?

Tech January 5, 2026 By Josh Milton

Could we really live on Mars? In about 50 years we could, says expert Picture: getty/ Metro

Could we really live on Mars? In about 50 years we could - on one condition

Tech December 24, 2025 By Josh Milton

'Extreme safety risk' warning from FAA after THREE passenger jets in panic to avoid Musk rocket explosion Credit X / SpaceX / @deankolson87

Three flights at risk after SpaceX rocket exploded sending debris raining down

Tech December 22, 2025 By Jen Mills

Tiny paint flecks could knock out the internet at any moment, experts say credit: Getty

Tiny paint flecks could knock out the internet at any moment, experts say

Tech December 18, 2025 By Josh Milton

Handout photo dated 13/12/24 issued by Josh Dury Photo-Media of the Geminid meteor shower over over Mendips in Somerset. Issue date: Saturday December 14, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SCIENCE Geminids. Photo credit should read: Josh Dury Photo-Media /PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Geminid meteor shower dubbed 'best of the year' coming to UK skies this weekend

UK December 13, 2025 By Herbie Russell

A compilation image of Tom Cruise and Donald Trump.

Tom Cruise needs Donald Trump's permission to film new movie in space

Film December 12, 2025 By Rebecca Sayce

The third red ring phenomenon known as ELVEs Valter Binotto over Possagno, Italy on November 26, 2025 also featured firework-like phenomena known as sprites. He believes it is a first getting them both in same frame. Incredible images show a bizarre UFO-like 230 km-wide ring floating in the sky. Amateur astrophotographer Valter Binotto managed to capture the otherworldly sight over his hometown of Possagno in Italy. Amazingly, it is the second time he has spotted the rings at the location ??? as well as sparkly, red, firework-like phenomena known as sprites. The doughnut-shaped red rings are known as ELVES, an upper-atmospheric lightning event sometimes caught in long-exposure images above distant thunderstorms. They are a type of transient luminous event (TLE) that occurs in the lower ionosphere, roughly around 90???100 km above the Earth, directly above powerful lightning storms. Photo released 11/12/2025

Bizarre doughnut-shaped phenomena spotted in the sky - what is it?

World December 11, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

North Yorkshire Weather Updates 2h ? 5.30 What on earth have we just witnessed in the sky looking Northeast? Did anybody else see it?

We now know what those bizarre light beams visible in the UK were

UK December 9, 2025 By Josh Milton

NASA?s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. NASA, ESA, STScI, D. Jewitt (UCLA), M.-T. Hui (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory). Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI) https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatlas/2025/12/04/nasas-hubble-space-telescope-revisits-interstellar-comet/

New images of 3I/ATLAS comet 'with a heartbeat' released by Nasa

Tech December 8, 2025 By Jen Mills

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Plane's sudden and uncontrolled drop 'could have been caused by cosmic rays'

World December 5, 2025 By Sam Courtney-Guy

High-resolution view of Earth from space at night, focusing on North America with countless glowing city lights creating a network of illumination across the continent. The curvature of the planet is visible with a bright blue atmospheric glow and scattered stars in the background. Cloud formations add realism, highlighting the beauty of our planet seen from orbit. Ideal for themes of space, geography, satellite imagery, and global connectivity.

Sportswear boss offers his £3billion firm to anyone who can prove Earth is flat

World December 4, 2025 By William Hallowell