About the CycleCalcs News Desk

Who we are

CycleCalcs News is the astronomy news section of CycleCalcs, which makes astronomy tools that tell you what is happening in the sky, and why. It is published by CycleCalcs LLC, a limited liability company formed in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States of America.

The CycleCalcs News Desk is the byline on every story. It is the routine that researches and drafts each story, working under rules set by the people who run CycleCalcs, who read what is published and correct it when it is wrong.

What a CycleCalcs News story gives you

• The research itself. We read the paper or the agency's own announcement, not other coverage, and link it under the story.
• Every number traced. Each figure in a story comes from a named source or from our own sky engine, with its inputs stated.
• Peer review, stated up front. A preprint is labeled as one before the headline.
• The sky, computed. When you can see the object, we work out where and when to look for a stated place and time, and draw the diagrams ourselves.
• Corrections in public. A correction is dated, kept on the story and listed in the corrections log.

How stories are made

Our stories are AI-assisted. A routine we built finds new results and drafts each story from a ledger of sourced claims. Seven independent AI reviewers then check it: a fact-checker, an astronomer, an image-rights reviewer, a brand editor, a long-form editor, a standards reviewer and an American English reviewer. A story is published only when all seven approve it. We never use AI-generated images. The full rules are in our standards.

Contact us

Write to info@cyclecalcs.com. To report an error, use the subject line "News correction" and include the story's address and what is wrong. Researchers and press offices can send new results to the same address, with a link to the paper.

How we are funded

CycleCalcs is funded by advertising and by the products we sell. Advertisers have no say in what we cover or what a story says, and no story is paid for. See independence and advertising.

Follow the news

Every story is in our RSS feed, and the day's story is on Instagram at @cyclecalcs.