Chelsea Gohd

Chelsea Gohd

Senior Writer

Chelsea “Foxanne” Gohd joined Space.com in 2018 and is now a Senior Writer, writing about everything from climate change to planetary science and human spaceflight in both articles and on-camera in videos. With a degree in Public Health and biological sciences, Chelsea has written and worked for institutions including 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, Chelsea "Foxanne" Gohd is writing music and performing as Foxanne, even launching a song to space in 2021 with Inspiration4. You can follow her on Twitter @chelsea_gohd and @foxannemusic.

Articles by: Chelsea Gohd

A composite image of the Bullet Cluster, a much-studied pair of galaxy clusters that have collided head on. One has passed through the other, like a bullet traveling through an apple, and is thought to show clear signs of dark matter (blue) separated from hot gases (pink).

In the hunt for dark matter, are axions our best bet?

By Chelsea Gohd published

Scientists investigating the true identity of dark matter are finding new evidence to support one leading candidate: axions.

A data visualization of particle collisions at the LHC at CERN.

The Large Hadron Collider will explore the cutting edge of physics after 3-year shutdown

By Chelsea Gohd last updated

Scientists are gearing up to once more push the boundaries of the cutting edge of particle physics with the reopening of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN after a three-year shutdown.

The GOES-17 satellite. Earth-monitoring satellites continue to prove critical to studying climate change.

Satellites are critical to fighting the climate crisis, scientists say

By Chelsea Gohd last updated

Space remains a vital resource in studying climate change on our own planet.

A visualization of the U.S. military's CHPS satellite that will monitor cislunar space.

Space Force plans to send a patrol probe out past the moon

By Chelsea Gohd published

The U.S. military is planning to extend its reach in space to one day patrol the area around the moon.

An artist's illustration of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites in orbit. SpaceX has sent additional Starlink support to Ukraine as Russia's invasion destroys infrastructure and disrupts internet connectivity.

How will Ukraine keep SpaceX's Starlink internet service online?

By Chelsea Gohd last updated

SpaceX's Starlink internet is now active in Ukraine. But how will they keep it online?

A Russian Soyuz rocket topped with 36 OneWeb internet satellites is scheduled to launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 4, 2022. But Russia has imposed new demands on OneWeb and the UK government, calling the launch into question.

Russia refuses to launch UK's OneWeb satellites unless demands are met

By Chelsea Gohd last updated

Roscosmos will not launch three dozen OneWeb internet satellites as planned on Friday (March 4) unless the company meets new demands.

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's vice prime minister and the country's minister of digital transformation, shared this photo on Feb. 28, 2022 of Starlink internet terminals arrived in Ukraine after Russia invaded.

SpaceX Starlink satellite internet terminals arrive in Ukraine

By Chelsea Gohd published

Elon Musk is delivering on his public promise to bring SpaceX Starlink terminals to Ukraine.

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule for the Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station arrives at the hangar at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida on Oct. 24, 2021. 

SpaceX hints at replacing Russian space station services

By Chelsea Gohd published

Could SpaceX replace Russia in space?

The surface of Venus, as imaged by NASA's Magellan spacecraft.

Venus' extreme surface heat drives swirling winds in upper atmosphere, study finds

By Chelsea Gohd published

Scientists have shown how the swirling winds and searing heat on Venus work together in a revealing new study.

Ukraine's Chuhuiv Airbase on Feb. 24, 2022, as seen by a satellite operated by the company Planet.

Satellite photos reveal details of Russian invasion into Ukraine

By Chelsea Gohd published

Satellites orbiting Earth are capturing a detailed view of Russia's invasion into Ukraine.

The International Space Station will continue its international partnerships despite new U.S. sanctions limiting exports to Russia, NASA stated Feb. 24, 2022.

New Russia sanctions won't imperil International Space Station operations, NASA says

By Chelsea Gohd last updated

The International Space Station program will continue business as usual, NASA assures us as the U.S. government levies new sanctions against Russia.

U.S. President Joe Biden makes a statement from the East Room of the White House about Russia's invasion of Ukraine Feb. 24, 2022.

US sanctions on Russia over Ukraine invasion will degrade Russian space program, Biden says

By Chelsea Gohd published

Russia's space program will suffer under new U.S. sanctions, U.S. President Joe Biden said today (Feb. 24).

Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Skhlaperov during work on the recently arrived Prichal module during a six-hour spacewalk at the International Space Station.

What does the Ukraine invasion mean for US-Russian partnership in space?

By Chelsea Gohd published

Could Russia's military and political actions in Ukraine upend science and exploration in outer space?

The Medusae Fossae Formation on Mars.

A giant Mars dust pile is sculpted by the wind in this photo by a European probe

By Chelsea Gohd published

An enormous dust deposit on Mars shows the power of Martian wind in a new image snapped from orbit.

Helicopters in Belgorod in Russia, as seen on Feb. 13, 2022.

Military activity in Russia spotted in satellite photos as tensions rise in Ukraine

By Chelsea Gohd last updated

Satellites can see military activity in Russia from space as tensions over Ukraine intensify.

An artist's visualization of the Starshot light sail probe.

Researchers unlock the keys to designing an interstellar sail

By Chelsea Gohd published

How do you design a sail that can get a spacecraft to another solar system?

An artist's impression of the hot Jupiter exoplanet WASP-121 b. In a new study, researchers explored the exoplanet's nightside.

Metal clouds and liquid gems spotted in the atmosphere of hot Jupiter WASP-121 b

By Chelsea Gohd published

In a new study scientists have found that that, on the hot Jupiter exoplanet WASP-121 b, the clouds are made of metal and liquid rubies and sapphires rain down from the sky.

In a new study, researchers have shown how spaceflight affects the brains of cosmonauts.

Cosmonaut brains are 'rewired' by space missions, scientists find

By Chelsea Gohd published

In a new study, scientists show how cosmonaut brains adapt to space.

What is space? In this image you can see the planetary nebula NGC 6891 glows in this Hubble Space Telescope image.

What is Space?

By Elizabeth Howell published

Space is the zone above and around our planet where there is no air to breathe or to scatter light. Space is a vacuum, but it is far from empty.

UCLA's Laurence Smith deployed this autonomous drifter in a meltwater river on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet in July 2015 as part of an effort to understand the causes of sea level rise around the globe.

Historic sea level rise predicted by NASA and government task force

By Chelsea Gohd published

In a new collaborative report, NASA and other U.S. government agencies have found that sea levels will rise up to a foot by 2050.

IXPE's first science image shows the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A.

1st image from NASA's new IXPE X-ray telescope looks like a ball of purple lightning

By Chelsea Gohd published

NASA's newly-launched X-ray hunting probe has snapped its first science image and — wow — it's spectacular.

Shift4 Payments founder and CEO Jared Isaacman will command a new set of missions to space with SpaceX as part of The Polaris Program.

Hope for the future of space exploration lies at the heart of SpaceX's new 'Polaris' missions

By Chelsea Gohd published

SpaceX aims to make progress in space and on Earth with its new venture, the Polaris Program. And the team behind it couldn't be more excited.

The first published image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope shows part of a mosaic created over 25 hours beginning on Feb. 2, 2022, early in the process of aligning the 18 segments of the James Webb Space Telescope's mirror.

The James Webb Space Telescope's first images have scientists excited (and a bit relieved)

By Chelsea Gohd published

Excitement runs high as NASA scientists capture the first images and spot their first starlight with the agency's James Webb Space Telescope.

Jupiter's southern hemisphere, as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft. In a new study, NASA's NuSTAR space telescope spots the highest-energy light from Jupiter.

NASA space telescope spots most powerful light ever seen on Jupiter, helps solve 30-year-old mystery

By Chelsea Gohd last updated

NASA has detected the most energetic light ever seen on Jupiter and, in the process, solved a 30-year-old mystery.

The asteroid Ryugu, as seen by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft on June 26, 2018.

Asteroid Ryugu samples, now on Earth, reveal inner workings of the space rock

By Chelsea Gohd published

Pieces of rock from the asteroid Ryugu splashed down on Earth in 2020. Now, scientists studying the samples are revealing the asteroid's true nature.

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