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Science & Space

The universe is stranger than we imagined. Anomalous signals, impossible physics, and the edges of human knowledge.

The Pentagon's UAP Office Has Now Filed Over 800 Reports. The Explanations Are Getting Stranger.

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office was created to bring rigour to UAP investigation. Its public reports suggest the problem is considerably more complex than anyone officially admitted.

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James Webb Is Finding Galaxies That Shouldn't Exist. Cosmologists Are Quietly Alarmed.

The standard model of cosmic evolution predicts what the early universe should look like. Webb is finding something different — and the gap between prediction and observation is widening.

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Voyager 1 Went Silent for Five Months in 2023. NASA Wasn't Sure It Was Coming Back.

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object in existence. Last year, it started sending back gibberish. The engineers who fixed it are in their seventies.

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NASA Crashed a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid on Purpose. It Worked Better Than Anyone Expected.

The DART mission was humanity's first attempt to change the orbit of a celestial body. The results, published in 2023, were surprising enough to prompt a significant rethink of planetary defence strategy.

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Betelgeuse Dimmed So Dramatically in 2019 That Astronomers Thought It Might Be About to Explode

The red supergiant star in Orion's shoulder lost two-thirds of its brightness in a matter of months. The explanation, when it came, was stranger than a supernova.

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The Hessdalen Lights Have Been Glowing for 40 Years. Science Still Has No Answer.

The Cursed Productions: Seven Horror Films Whose Sets Were Plagued by Genuine Tragedy

Folk Horror's Second Coming: Why Ancient Dread Is the Most Relevant Genre of the Moment

Scotland's Most Genuinely Unsettling Locations — And What the Evidence Actually Says

Thin Places: The Ancient Idea That Some Locations Are Closer to the Other Side

The Fringe Desk Halloween Watchlist: Seven Films That Take the Darkness Seriously

The Pentagon's UAP Office Has Now Filed Over 800 Reports. The Explanations Are Getting Stranger.

James Webb Is Finding Galaxies That Shouldn't Exist. Cosmologists Are Quietly Alarmed.

The Antikythera Mechanism Is 2,000 Years Old. We're Still Working Out What It Could Do.

The Easter Island Statues Walked. The Evidence Has Been There the Whole Time.

The Tartaria Tablets: Did a Balkan Culture Invent Writing 1,000 Years Before Sumer?

Göbekli Tepe Is 12,000 Years Old and We Still Don't Know What It Was For

The Ness of Brodgar: The Neolithic Complex That Is Rewriting Scottish Prehistory

Operation Paperclip: How the United States Recruited Over 1,600 Nazi Scientists After the War

The Stargate Project: The CIA Spent 20 Years Investigating Psychic Spies. The Declassified Record Is Stranger Than You'd Expect.

The Soviet Woodpecker: The Cold War Signal That Jammed the World's Radios for a Decade

MKUltra: What the Declassified Record Actually Shows

Acoustic Kitty: The CIA Spent $20 Million Turning a Cat Into a Spy

Voyager 1 Went Silent for Five Months in 2023. NASA Wasn't Sure It Was Coming Back.

NASA Crashed a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid on Purpose. It Worked Better Than Anyone Expected.

Betelgeuse Dimmed So Dramatically in 2019 That Astronomers Thought It Might Be About to Explode

The Wow! Signal: The Most Compelling Evidence for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Ever Recorded — and It Lasted 72 Seconds