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

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NASA astronaut Jessica Meir captured a breathtaking view of auroras on Earth from orbit while sheltering with her fellow astronauts in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

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"From orbit, volcanoes are some of the most beautiful natural sights."

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Prada (yes, that Prada) and Axiom Space are taking spacesuits up a notch with this liquid cooling ventilation garment.

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Let's take a look at the movie's 10 spaciest moments

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Searing across the night sky, a meteor puts on a spectacular show above Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory.

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A rainbow blanket of patchwork colors sprawls across South Africa in this new composite image created using data from NASA's latest Earth-observing mission.

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NASA engineers completed their final inspection of the Roman telescope's primary mirror and are now preparing to ship the telescope to its Florida launch site.

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In June 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly to space. Nearly three decades later, we learned that she had also been an LGBTQ trailblazer.

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"My compass was about trying to please the eight-year-old version of myself who discovered He-Man for the first time."

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Hundreds of students came together to design, build, and test rovers on an Earth obstacle course to prepare for the moon as part of a NASA challenge.

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The city spectacle is back for 2026 — and don't worry you'll have another chance to see it in July.

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He-Man isn't the only one with a sword.

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Even the satellites are seeing red.

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This is one spectacular photograph.

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Fear not, these lasers are just doing science.

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The two boosters hang out mid-air after separation.

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This is part of an even-larger "restructuring" at NASA.

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has stumbled across an unusual sight: a stack of rocks on the Martian surface.

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Neptune's moon Nereid might be the only satellite surviving from the planet's original system, researchers report in a new study.

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Earth is so beautiful from afar.

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The galaxy M77 looks truly out-of-this-world in a new image by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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"This dust can penetrate the shielding of the solar system and end up on Earth."
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