Julian Dossett is a freelance writer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He primarily covers the rocket industry and space exploration and, in addition to science writing, contributes travel stories to New Mexico Magazine. In 2022 and 2024, his travel writing earned IRMA Awards. Previously, he worked as a staff writer at CNET. He graduated from Texas State University in San Marcos in 2011 with a B.A. in philosophy. He owns a large collection of sci-fi pulp magazines from the 1960s.
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The hunt is on for a state to host the newly announced U.S. Space Academy. Groundbreaking for the new institution, wherever it ends up being, is targeted for 2027.

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NASA and IBM have developed an AI model to help sift through the mountains of data the agency has gathered about the moon.

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"Scientists can study the sun's corona in a way we can't from anywhere else in the solar system."

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Air-breathing electric propulsion could help satellites explore a new frontier, one that lies quite close to our planet.

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California-based company Auxilium Biotechnologies just produced kidney and liver tissue in space for the first time, using a method called bioprinting,

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European Space Agency astronaut John McFall could be headed to the private Haven-1 space station as soon as 2027.

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The U.S Space Force has awarded SpaceX $4.16 billion to help the military track airborne targets using satellites.

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Astronomers say that they have identified 20 stars that may have grown up together in a dwarf galaxy named "Loki" that eventually became part of our Milky Way.

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An international team of researchers say they've found a more efficient route from Earth to the moon using advanced computer modeling.

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A giant radio telescope in West Virginia tracked Artemis 2's Orion spacecraft around the moon for five days, gathering precise observations on its movements during the historic mission.

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Scientists studied how space junk moved in orbit over a 36-year span, finding that increased solar activity caused it to fall to Earth faster.

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For a few moments on April 6, the four Artemis 2 moon astronauts and the three crewmates aboard China's Tiangong space station were farther away from each other than any humans had ever been.

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Heat shields keep incoming spacecraft from burning up in planetary atmospheres. Now we're learning that different atmospheres have different effects.

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Science is messy business. Finding the truth is easier said than done.

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The U.S. military is developing a new experimental aircraft known as the X-68A and looks a lot like a cruise missile that is also capable of launching its own missiles.

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Can we use fungus to mine precious metals from asteroids?

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"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system."

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NASA launched two rockets from Alaska this week to learn more about the electrical "circuitry" within auroras.

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Could we prevent in-orbit crashes in the future by using advanced computer models?

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China will work on establishing space-based data centers as a part of a larger five-year plan to expand the nation's already significant presence in space.

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This is the first time humans have laid eyes on these deep space objects.

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Using data gathered by NASA's Juno Jupiter orbiter, scientists estimate that Europa's ice shell is about 18 miles thick — which could make it hard for nutrients to get down to its buried ocean.

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What role will F-15 jets play in the future of supersonic flight?

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Using new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and observatories on Earth, scientists have confirmed the existence of Betelgeuse's elusive companion star, named Siwarha.
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