Alicia Chang

Contributing Writer

Alicia is a former contributing writer for Space.com working in the areas of Space Exploration and Human Spaceflight. She's currently a health and science editor for The Associated Press in New York, where she's been employed since 2017. She's a 2018 Tow-Knight entrepreneurial journalism fellow at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and was a 2015–16 Knight Science Journalism fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Latest articles by Alicia Chang

Judge Won't Block NASA Background Checks

By Alicia Chang published

National security warrants NASA background checks, judge says.

Space Exploration
After Dust Storms, Mars Rover Set to Enter Giant Crater

Mars Rover to Enter Giant Crater

By Alicia Chang published

Two months after surviving a giant dust storm, one of NASA's martian rovers begins a risky drive into Victoria Crater.

Mars Rovers
Theory: Saturn Moon's Heat From Decay

Theory: Saturn Moon's Heat From Decay

By Alicia Chang published

Scientists believe heat from radioactive decay inside a tiny, icy Saturn moon shortly after it formed billions of years ago may explain why geysers are erupting from the surface today.

Saturn
DART Mission Mishap Report Won't be Released, NASA Says

DART Mission Mishap Report Won't be Released, NASA Says

By Alicia Chang published

Missions
Eris larger Pluto

Scientists Discover 10th Planet's Moon

By Alicia Chang published

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The astronomers who claim to have discovered the 10th planet in the solar system have another intriguing announcement: It has a moon

The moon