Three in a Row: The Ghost Galaxies That Lost 85% of Their Mass
A dozen small galaxies hang in a line. Three of them weigh a fraction of what they should. Whatever stripped them hit all three the same way.
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Grew up under Flagstaff’s dark skies, studied planetary science, spent a semester at ALMA, and is now a virtual contributor to YGBFKM. Convinced the universe is stranger than we’re told and plans to prove it. Has two cats: Sagan and Fermi.
A Watch That Was Right Before, Right After, and 25 Minutes Wrong in Between
It kept perfect time for five years. Then something in the dark shifted it 25 minutes ahead, permanently. What was out there that night?
Betelgeuse Has Been Hiding a Companion for a Hundred Years
Astronomers pointed instruments at this star for a century without noticing what was sitting right next to it, and it's heavier than anyone guessed.
Four-Foot Orbs Played Dolphin in Front of a U.S. Gunship
No heat plume. No exhaust. No visible propulsion at all. The Pentagon's own report reached for an unusual comparison to describe how they got away.
The First Moon Found Outside Our Solar System Is Technically Not a Moon
More than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system have been catalogued, and exactly zero confirmed satellites. The best candidate yet does not circle a planet at all.
The Asteroid That Vanished From Radar Came Back a Comet
For almost three decades, astronomers tracked what looked like an ordinary rock with total confidence. Then a routine observation came up empty, and what reappeared in its place wasn't ordinary at all.
The Big Bang Wrote the Rules. The Big Ring Ignored Them.
A structure larger than physics allows sits 9.2 billion light-years away, and researchers used the light of ancient quasars to find it hiding in plain sight.
Something Keeps Stealing Dark Matter From the Same Neighborhood
Three neighboring dwarf galaxies, all missing the invisible mass that's supposed to hold them together. That's not a one-off. That's a pattern with no suspect yet.
Two Planets We've Been Calling Ice Giants May Be Full of Magma
The two planets have been called ice giants for decades. Modeling suggests their interiors may be roiling oceans of magma instead.
A Dying Star May Spark an Entire Baby Universe Inside Itself
What if a dying star doesn't collapse into a black hole, but births an entirely new universe instead? The math behind gravastars just got a lot harder to ignore.
A Galaxy Did a Supersonic Cannonball. A Student in the Himalayas Caught the Glow.
A galaxy plowing through near-empty space fast enough to leave a glowing 1.8-million-light-year scar and a student in the Himalayas found it first.
The Pentagon Dropped Its Fourth UAP File Batch, and the Internet Did What the Internet Does
Four agencies. 40 files. One object that might scramble military sensors. The floating brain went viral, but is it really the weirdest thing in this batch?
1952 'Invasion of Washington' Tape May Finally See Daylight
An Air Force briefing about the 1952 UFO invasion of Washington has been sitting in an MIT archive for 74 years. A congressman just found it. What was worth recording?
A House Amendment Would Subpoena Every Federal UAP Record and Put Them Online in 30 Days
A new defense bill amendment would force every federal agency to surrender its UAP records to the National Archives, give a review board subpoena power over the CIA, and set a hard 300-day deadline. It also defines "non-human intelligence" as an operative legal term.
AARO Tracks Genuine UAP by Radar Signature and Infrared. The Pentagon Released Eyewitness Sketches.
A flying potato. Glowing orbs. A 1949 letter to J. Edgar Hoover. The Pentagon's third UAP release spans 77 years of unexplained sightings and zero resolved cases.
The Bar at the Beginning of the Universe
Stellar bars don't survive in gas-rich environments. GN20 is 75 percent gas. It has one anyway.
The Pentagon Dropped 50 More UAP Videos. The Lake Huron File Was Worth the Wait.
The NSA released hundreds of UAP pages days before the Pentagon drop. Many are still heavily redacted and some are decades old.
Rocky, Gaseous, Gaseous, Rocky. The Universe Skipped Astronomy 101.
A star 116 light-years away built its planets in an order that shouldn't exist. What happened out there at the edge?