NASA's New Horizons spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope will turn their eyes to the ice giants - Uranus and Neptune - in September. And NASA wants your help!
In a new study, astronomers say that at least some of the 7 Earth-sized TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets could be habitable now, even if they didn't start out that way.
NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered ancient honeycomb-patterned mud on Mars. The now bone-dry mud is evidence of cyclic wet-dry periods in Mars' past.
A new study from researchers in Germany shows that stellar winds from cool stars with strong magnetic fields can be more powerful than ones from hotter stars.
NASA's Webb telescope has captured spectroscopic and infrared views of 2 of Jupiter's moons, Ganymede and Io, providing new insights into these distant worlds.
Scientists in France have found new evidence that the largest volcano on Mars, Olympus Mons, was once a volcanic island surrounded by an ancient northern ocean.
A new study predicts that NASA's upcoming Roman space telescope will find 400 Earth-mass rogue planets. These worlds drift freely in space, unbound to any star.
A new study says that high-speed impacts fueled early volcanism on Venus, explaining why Venus' surface is geologically young despite a lack of plate tectonics.
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.