Editorial desk
The editorial desk of AsteriaStar. Articles published under this name are the work of the platform's editorial process rather than of a single named writer, and they follow the same sourcing rules as everything else on the platform: every factual claim traces to a primary source, and the article says what kind of claim it is.
Where an article is drafted with the assistance of software, that changes nothing about the standard it is held to — the sources are real, they are cited, and they were read. Where we get something wrong, the correction appears on the article and in the corrections log rather than being edited away.
Covers: science sourcing · data provenance · observing guidance
Six questions that separate a result from a headline
A practical guide to reading astronomy discovery news — what a sigma actually means, why "Earth-like" is usually about size alone, and the six questions that tell you how much of an announcement to believe.
The hierarchy of evidence behind every article, and what each level is worth
The sourcing hierarchy AsteriaStar Journal works to — which sources count as primary, why a preprint is not a result, and how to tell an agency announcement from a measurement.
What this publication is for, and the one rule it will not bend
AsteriaStar Journal is the editorial publication of AsteriaStar — astronomy and space-science reporting held to the same sourcing standard as the platform's scientific data, with every claim traceable to where it came from.