Every paper we've published, every null result included.
9 publications from the lab. New research appears here as it ships: methodology notes, experimental writeups, sky reconstructions, and full reports on what didn't work.
Your Cosmic Address
Where you are in the universe, written out as a nested coordinate from Earth's surface to the boundary of the observable universe. Ten rungs, each a measurable fact.
Mapping the Milky Way: What Modern Surveys Show Us
We live inside a barred spiral galaxy of a few hundred billion stars. Gaia and a century of structural surveys have given us a confident picture of its shape, its rotation, and our place inside it.
The Cosmic Web: How Galaxies Hang Together
Galaxies are not scattered through the universe at random. They form filaments, sheets, and walls around enormous near-empty voids. We summarise what redshift surveys have shown and what's still being argued.
Six Thousand Worlds: The State of Exoplanet Discovery
Three decades after the first confirmed exoplanet, the count of confirmed worlds is past six thousand and climbing. We summarise how they were found, what they look like, and what we still can't measure.
Introducing LokLab: A Research Lab for the Night Sky
Why we're starting a research lab devoted to the cosmos: what we publish, what we don't, and the standards we hold ourselves to.
Halley's Comet: Two Millennia of Recorded Returns
Every 75 years, a single 15-kilometre block of ice and dust on a wildly eccentric orbit swings past Earth. We trace its documented apparitions from 240 BCE to its next predicted return in 2061.
Recomputing Eddington: The 1919 Eclipse and the First Confirmation of General Relativity
We reconstruct the 1919 eclipse Eddington observed from Príncipe and recompute the stellar deflections from modern ephemerides. The results agree with Einstein to within published uncertainty.
The Cosmic Distance Ladder: How We Measure the Universe
Eighteen orders of magnitude separate the Moon from the edge of the observable universe. We climb that distance one rung at a time, each rung calibrated against the rung below it.
Reconstructing the Sky Galileo Saw: January 7, 1610
On a winter night in Padua, Galileo turned his new telescope toward Jupiter and saw four points of light arranged in a line. We reconstruct that view using modern ephemerides.