'not only is this writing technical, dry, formulaic, and locked up behind paywalls, but it is also, counterintuitively, the main output by which scientists are evaluated and upon which they cast most of their hopes for making an actual difference... Hopefully the impossibility of all this is clear.'

for younger audiences, Space Scoop! it shares news from many different organizations and has a great astro dictionary for reference www.spacescoop.org/en/