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Paul Scott Anderson

Dying star’s explosive end seen by astronomers

For the first time, a dying star's explosive end has been caught as it happened. Two telescopes in Hawaii witnessed the event.

Paul Scott Anderson

January 14, 2022

Mysterious dusty object baffles astronomers

Astronomers have found a mysterious dusty object orbiting a star 2,300 light-years from Earth. It's emitting large amounts of dust, yet remaining intact.

Paul Scott Anderson

January 10, 2022

The 1st known exoplanet magnetic field

An international team of astronomers has discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet HAT-P-11b, a Neptune-sized world 123 light-years away.

Paul Scott Anderson

January 5, 2022

Ice on Earth-like worlds might be rare

Ice on Earth-like worlds orbiting other stars may be fairly rare at the planets' poles, according to a new study from researchers in the U.S. and Switzerland.

Paul Scott Anderson

January 4, 2022

10 months of Perseverance: New Mars discoveries

NASA announced exciting new results from the first 10 months of Perseverance exploring an ancient lakebed on Mars, from magma to organics.

Paul Scott Anderson

January 3, 2022

Scientists find water in Mars’ Grand Canyon

A spacecraft orbiting Mars has made the unexpected discovery of water in Mars' Grand Canyon, otherwise known as Valles Marineris.

Paul Scott Anderson

December 24, 2021

A Mars-sized exoplanet, like Mercury inside

Astronomers have found a nearby, blazing hot, Mars-sized exoplanet. It's like Mercury in composition and orbits its star in only 7.7 hours.

Paul Scott Anderson

December 20, 2021

Seeking Europa’s water plumes with Clipper

Are Europa's water plumes real? NASA's Europa Clipper will launch in 2024 to visit this moon to answer this and other questions about its subsurface ocean.

Paul Scott Anderson

December 19, 2021

Hundreds of new exoplanets from Kepler data

Scientists have found hundreds of new exoplanets in data from the Kepler mission. These include 301 new confirmed exoplanets and 366 new planetary candidates.

Paul Scott Anderson

December 13, 2021

‘Mystery hut’ on the far side of the moon

China's Yutu 2 rover in the Von Kármán crater on the far side of the moon has spotted a roughly cube-shaped object on the horizon. What is Yutu 2's 'mystery hut'?

Paul Scott Anderson

December 10, 2021

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Paul Scott Anderson

Paul Scott Anderson has had a passion for space exploration that began when he was a child when he watched Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. While in school he was known for his passion for space exploration and astronomy. He started his blog The Meridiani Journal in 2005, which was a chronicle of planetary exploration. In 2015, the blog was renamed as Planetaria. While interested in all aspects of space exploration, his primary passion is planetary science. In 2011, he started writing about space on a freelance basis, and now currently writes for AmericaSpace and Futurism (part of Vocal). He has also written for Universe Today and SpaceFlight Insider, and has also been published in The Mars Quarterly and has done supplementary writing for the well-known iOS app Exoplanet for iPhone and iPad.