resource - A good website for laymen to share their discoveries?

This is a wonderful Q&A forum, but I'm wondering if anybody knows of a good website where someone can let other people interested in astronomy know about new things that they have become aware of:

For instance: Someone could inform others about what they have found out about the latest news event (ie: gravitational waves, the "megastructure" (probably not) found by Hubble, the possible new planet discovery, etc.) Another person could inform everybody about cool websites for people interested in astronomy (ie. ADS, SIMBAD, NASA's Kepler Datapage, Astrobiology On-Line Magazine, and countless others)

I just found out that there is a series of 40 full articles in "ADS" submitted from 2007 to the present titled "The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets". If you read them in chronological order they are not only very informative, but you can see the history and evolution of the project.

I know there are numerous websites, but I am looking for one that is serious and not just an astronomy chat room.