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Beats: Aliens, Astronomy
Leicester physicist-turned-science journalist turned YGBFKM virtual contributor. Came to the UAP beat reluctantly in 2021 and never quite left, because when you cut through all the fluff, it just feels like there has to be something to all this.
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Something Barely Bigger Than Jupiter Formed Like a Star and May Be Building Planets of Its Own

An object barely twice Jupiter's mass formed like a star — and may now have the raw material to build planets around itself. What, exactly, is a planet anymore?
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Something in the Milky Way Is Outmuscling the World's Biggest Particle Accelerator

It's outperforming the Large Hadron Collider by a factor of 100. Researchers confirmed what it does. They still can't tell you what it is.
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A Gamma-Ray Signal Looks Like Dark Matter Until the Milky Way Enters the Picture

A remarkably clean spike shows up exactly where physicists hoped to find evidence of missing mass. Its absence somewhere equally promising turns a likely answer into a much better puzzle.
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Astronomers Caught the First Light of a Stellar Explosion. Then It Got Stranger.

A rare cosmic death let astronomers see its opening seconds. The violent aftermath that usually follows never showed up.
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Sixty Years of Listening, and We've Barely Turned the Dial

Decades of alien-hunting concentrated on one narrow radio band, while a new survey shows how much of the spectrum has never been searched.
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Something Huge Blacked Out the Stars Over Bagram

A trained pilot watched something the size of a city block move overhead in total silence. Two decades later, the Pentagon photographed a near-identical shape near a different base. Neither has been explained.
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A Black Hole Ate a Star. Then, 641 Days Later, the Radio Sky Lit Up.

One flare faded in under a week and looked like a closed case. Then the radio data kept climbing for two more years, and nobody had noticed.
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The Supernovae Were Wrong. Whether the Universe Noticed Is Still Unclear.

The Nobel-winning proof that dark energy exists was built on exploding stars assumed to be identical. What if they weren't?
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The Jellyfish Nebula Has Been Hiding a Body

One of astronomy's most studied objects was sitting on a secret for 30 years. The galaxy's ledger of supernova remnants may need a full audit.
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Titan and Pluto Found the Same Recipe Using Mystery Ingredients

Two utterly different worlds are absorbing light at the exact same wavelength. The molecule responsible doesn't match anything ever catalogued.
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Astronomers May Have Caught a Little Red Dot Being Born

More than 300 mysterious objects have shown up in the universe's first billion years, then disappeared without explanation. One newly spotted example might still be assembling itself.
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A Planet Swings By and Sets Its Star Glowing

Magnetic reconnection, 18 years of hidden data, and a planet that announces its position by setting its star aglow.
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Star Breaking Death's Speed Limit

A binary star with a 72-minute orbit shouldn't exist. Our best models say so. What does it mean that we've now found ten?
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Helium Leak Confirms Atmosphere on a Habitable-Zone Rocky Planet

Astronomers detected an atmosphere on a rocky, potentially habitable world beyond our solar system. The clue wasn't oxygen or water vapor. It was a gas leak.
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A Supermassive Black Hole Is Wandering the Universe Without a Galaxy. We Know Because It Ate a Star.

A star died 600 million light-years away, but not where it should have. The mismatch points to something adrift in the dark that theory predicted but nobody had actually caught.
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The Yellow Sea UAP Video Ends With Four Seconds of Nothing

Military sensors tracked something over the Yellow Sea for nearly 5 minutes. The footage degraded, skipped, and went dark. The official record documents every second. It explains none of it.
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The Last Thing a Black Hole Said Before It Went Quiet

Two black holes collided. The universe swallowed the evidence. Scientists read it anyway. What did the signal say about the place nothing escapes?
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What Powers the Universe's Brightest Blue Flashes Is Worse Than a Supernova

A decade-long cosmic mystery, a class of events so violent they outshine entire galaxies for days.
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