Julian Dossett

Julian Dossett

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.

Latest articles by Julian Dossett

color-coded display from NASA shows the outward movements of dynamic solar activity.

Watch a mesmerizing simulation of the sun’s behavior from NASA (video)

By Julian Dossett published

The sun's complex behavior still holds many mysteries.

The Sun
a rocket hangs suspended in an assembly hanger.

Powerful new Vulcan Centaur rocket gearing up for 1st Space Force mission

By Julian Dossett published

The new Vulcan Centaur rocket's first launch for the U.S. Space Force will come at an exciting time for the spaceflight industry.

Launches & Spacecraft
a partial panoramic view of a rusty landscape with large broken rocks embedded in the redbrown ground.

NASA's Curiosity rover captures 360-degree view of Mars — and finds strange sulfur stones

By Julian Dossett published

The Curiosity shows sulfur stones, with no explanation of how they occurred on the Martian surface.

Mars
Uranus as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope

Long ago, Voyager 2 might have caught Uranus at a bad time

By Julian Dossett published

A new analysis of Voyager 2 data reveals a fresh theory about Uranus's unique magnetosphere.

Uranus
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