From the cosmos, to you.
Deep inside Neptune's moon system, a crowd of small moons looks nothing like the giant Triton orbiting far outside. JWST infrared data shows they're darker and less icy than expected — the fingerprint of moons that were smashed apart and reassembled, twice over.
21,000 light-years away, the neutron star PSR J1101-6101 drags a tail of light nine times longer than the distance to the nearest star. NASA's IXPE X-ray satellite has directly measured the magnetic field of this 'cosmic lighthouse' for the first time. SORABUMI explains.
JWST has spotted the 'JWST Quintet' -- at least five galaxies merging just 800 million years after the Big Bang. Gas torn loose in the collision carried oxygen out beyond the galaxies themselves, catching the young universe in the act of distributing heavy elements.
JWST and the Keck Observatory watched clouds swell and dissolve above Saturn's largest moon, Titan. It doesn't rain water there, it rains methane. Over roughly 30 hours, researchers tracked those clouds and confirmed that a world with real seasons and weather exists well beyond Earth.
A planet bigger than Jupiter orbits close beside a white dwarf—the burned-out core of a dead star—at an average temperature of about -87°C. WD 1856+534 b is the coldest exoplanet ever directly imaged by JWST. SORABUMI explains how a planet survived a fate that should have destroyed it.
Behind every splashy exoplanet-discovery headline sits a quiet library that just keeps growing. In January 2026, it added 468 spectra at once — a 40% jump in its collection. SORABUMI explains why simply hoarding data is, itself, how science moves forward.
Short fiction and serials set in space.
Tsuya writes to her neighbor Fuki, across the fence: unlike Fuki's moon, which shatters and pulls itself back together, hers is a pedigreed original. An inspector is coming soon to grade the neighborhood's moons.
Tomo, the harbor's oldest escort boat, has always had a strange habit: instead of aiming for the guiding star itself, it points just past it, into empty dark. On the night the town unveils a brand-new, perfectly accurate light, the harbor keeper's child Noe realizes the light everyone bows to already left that spot long ago.
On this planet, 'when it clouds over' was a polite way of saying never — which let everyone dodge their promises for good. Then one morning, real white clouds actually appeared in the sky...