Weekly Cosmos Digest

Five plain-English space updates from August 3–10, 2026, including a newly seen solar instability, possible vacuum birefringence around a magnetar, a solar-storm forecast test, an unusual supernova, and an occultation observed from Mars.

Five plain-English space updates from July 27–August 3, from a likely stellar companion around Betelgeuse to Mercury's changing radiation belt and Rubin's first deep science preview.

Five plain-English space updates with the evidence level and why each one matters.

A plain-English visual digest of five July 13–20 space-science stories, from Webb's hidden planet and sugar in interstellar space to a black hole, an exoplanet atmosphere, and a richer gravitational-wave catalog.

A plain-English visual digest covering Webb's FS Tau star nursery, WD 1856 b's survival around a dead star, a revised Milky Way map, TESS's microlensing planet, and Hubble's ancient globular cluster.

A plain-English visual digest covering Webb's interstellar comet chemistry, TESS's cotton-candy planets, Euclid's Milky Way preview, Hubble's early-universe galaxy, Webb's Cigar Galaxy view, and NASA's Swift rescue plan.

A five-slide plain-English space-science digest covering Fermi's possible sibling supernova remnants, JWST evidence for salt clouds on the Pink Planet, Lucy's wobbling asteroid, Hubble's merging galaxy cluster, and NASA's new Mars weather partnership.

A jargon-light visual digest covering Webb's roasted exoplanet, a Milky Way fossil fragment, Chandra's variable X-ray remnants, an early flickering quasar, and Webb's Orion star-forming view.