Chelsea Gohd served as a Senior Writer for Space.com from 2018 to 2022 before returning in 2026, covering everything from climate change to planetary science and human spaceflight in both articles and on-camera in videos. With a M.S. in Biology, Chelsea has written and worked for institutions including NASA JPL, the American Museum of Natural History, Scientific American, Discover Magazine Blog, Astronomy Magazine, and Live Science. When not writing, editing or filming something space-y, Gohd is writing music and performing as Foxanne, even launching a song to space in 2021 with Inspiration4. You can follow her online @chelsea.gohd and @foxanne.music
Latest articles by Chelsea Gohd

By Hanneke Weitering Published
Expedition 1 crewmates Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev pose with a model of the space station as it appeared in 2000.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
In this image, we can see a colorful view of an ancient, rocky Martian hill.

By Hanneke Weitering Published
On October 30, 1964, NASA's Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, or LLRV, took to the skies for the first time. Here's why it mattered.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
Just in time for Halloween, we have new, ghostly views of the Cat's Eye Nebula haunting the outer reaches of the cosmos.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
Iceberg A-81 escaping the Weddell Sea and drifting near the edge of South Georgia's underwater shelf.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
Rover tracks can be seen on the Martian surface, left behind by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
The robotic Griffin lunar lander has passed a host of critical tests ahead of its first-ever moon mission, which is scheduled to launch later this year.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
Researchers think they might have pinpointed the exact night sky that we see depicted in Vincent van Gogh's iconic painting "The Starry Night."

By Chelsea Gohd Published
A satellite image of "Spider Crater" in Western Australia.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
NASA astronaut Luke Delaney conducts botany experiments on the ISS.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
And yes, it has AI.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
If you were approaching the edge of a spiral galaxy, arriving from afar through the cosmos, it might look something like this.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
One new study shows how much the moon has diminished over time.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite mission captured a close-up of West Antarctica from its perch high above Earth.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
What looks like a neon pink treble clef floating out in space is actually a bizarre source of radio waves spotted deep in the cosmos.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
A "jellyfish" in the early-morning sky created by SpaceX's launch of the CRS-35 cargo mission on Oct. 13, 2026.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has broken the record for the farthest distance driven on a world beyond Earth, passing its smaller cousin Opportunity.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
The Etosha Pan in northern Namibia, the largest salt flat in the country, looks otherworldly in this satellite photo.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
Dark clouds swirl across a star-speckled sky as the Milky Way stretches above La Silla Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
"I think motherhood eventually has to become a bigger part of the conversation if we're serious when we talk about humanity having a sustained presence beyond Earth."

By Chelsea Gohd Published
Will future astronauts take shelter in moon caves?

By Chelsea Gohd Published
We have our first look at the science from Artemis II, and it's as amazing as we might have hoped.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
NASA's Curiosity rover recently captured a stunning panorama of a Martian mountain range bathed in golden early-morning light.
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