From the cosmos, to you.
Cosmic dust is the raw material of planets and our own bodies. In Sextans A, a primitive dwarf galaxy with just 3-7% of the Sun's heavy elements, JWST spotted stars making dust out of almost nothing but iron. SORABUMI unpacks the surprising answer to how the early universe managed to make dust at all.
GJ 3378 b, a super-Earth found 25 light-years away, sits right in the middle of its habitable zone, soaking up about 90% as much starlight as Earth gets from the Sun. But the real test for finding life isn't distance — it's whether a planet can hold onto its atmosphere. SORABUMI explains the new yardstick astronomers call the cosmic shoreline.
Instead of flying Mars samples straight to Earth, why not quarantine them on the Moon first? That's the proposal published in a scientific journal in June 2026. SORABUMI traces the idea back through Apollo's isolation protocols and Hayabusa's homecoming to explain why the Moon suddenly looks like the ideal front porch.
FRB 220529A is a repeating fast radio burst flashing from 2.5 billion light-years away. After 17 months of watching with China's giant FAST telescope, researchers caught a moment when the radio wave's 'twist' spiked a hundredfold -- evidence, they believe, of a solar storm from a companion star. SORABUMI explains.
JWST tracked the scorching gas giant WASP-121b for a full orbit and found something strange: the escaping atmosphere trails behind the planet, but also stretches out ahead of it. SORABUMI breaks down what a complete-orbit observation of atmospheric loss, 858 light-years away, actually revealed.
GWTC-5.0, the gravitational-wave catalog released in 2026, shows signs that some merged black holes went on to collide again, producing a 'second generation.' SORABUMI breaks down what happened 700 million and 2.4 billion light-years away, and how spin patterns exposed a hierarchy of mergers.
Short fiction and serials set in space.
Treats always go around oldest-first, and Riku, the youngest, always loses out. Then Grandma tells him his body is built from grains unthinkably old — which would make his week-old baby sister the biggest elder of them all.
In this town, the deeper you love someone, the more your body glows — and the colder you get. Kiyo's house, the brightest in town, is also the coldest. When a young neighbor pities her, Kiyo has an answer.
On the lunar valley floor, the smartest, tallest machines crack first. Peta, a prototype with no model number, has somehow survived ten years. Its patchwork body carries a quiet little pride.