Monisha Ravisetti is Space.com's Astronomy Editor. She covers black holes, star explosions, gravitational waves, exoplanet discoveries and other enigmas hidden across the fabric of space and time. Previously, she was a science writer at CNET, and before that, reported for The Academic Times. Prior to becoming a writer, she was an immunology researcher at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. She graduated from New York University in 2018 with a B.A. in philosophy, physics and chemistry. She spends too much time playing online chess. Her favorite planet is Earth.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has exited safe mode after a gyroscope glitch, NASA says, and should resume its regular science operations sometime in January.

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Having launched on Oct. 13, the Psyche spacecraft has been journeying to a metal asteroid reminiscent of Earth's core. It just snapped its first image.

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There will be 20 total payloads being brought to the moon, five of which are NASA's.

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Asteroid Dinkinesh, target No. 1 on Lucy's journey, turned out to be not one, but two (technically three) space rocks put together. Scientists finally gave its satellite a name.

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The Hubble Space Telescope has entered an automatic safe mode due to gyroscope difficulties, but scientists aren't worried about the observatory's health.

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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is headed to one of Jupiter's largest moons. It's bringing along a microchip filled with human names.

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NASA's sonification project has done it again, this time turning the Galactic Center into a perfectly dissonant symphony.

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The brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen was also the first to impact Earth's upper ionosphere, a new study suggests.

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ESA's TRISAT-R satellite has a camera that's only about the size of a coin's edge, yet it managed to capture a view of our entire world.

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The museum's curator of meteorites had been dreaming of this moment for two decades.

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A coalition of over 50 astronomers is calling to rename the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.

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NASA's Lucy mission is set to visit several asteroids over 12 years, and the probe just successfully flew by target number one.

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With guidance from the telescope's scientists, an actress, a computer animation artist, a composer, and many other experts, 'Deep Sky' aims to reintroduce us to the JWST's lens on our universe.

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Scientists have confirmed that OSIRIS-REx brought home at least 70.3 grams of material from asteroid Bennu, surpassing its intended goal of 60 grams.

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The JWST's perspective on our solar system has offered us the 1st evidence of a superfast Jovian jet stream.

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Gaganyaan translates to "celestial vehicle" and is a mission to bring Indian astronauts to space.
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NASA's launching a spacecraft toward an intriguing metal asteroid on Oct. 12. Here's what we might find on 16 Psyche.

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The galaxy NGC 6951 was a star factory 800 million years ago, then it halted operations for 300 million years before cranking stellar bodies out once more.

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A stunning new Hubble Telescope image showcases NGC 612's orange-hued star-forming disk.

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If we can understand how stars form, perhaps we can understand how planets do, too.

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The well-known Vela Pulsar just smashed a record for the highest-energy radiation ever detected from one of these highly magnetized spinning neutron stars.

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The James Webb Space Telescope and the now-retired SOFIA telescope, impressive as they may be, have hit their limits when it comes to studying Psyche.

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For years, experts haven't agreed on whether Venus' lightning is truly lightning. New data from NASA's sun-kissing spacecraft may have settled the debate.
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