Monisha Ravisetti

Monisha Ravisetti

Astronomy Channel Editor

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.

Latest articles by Monisha Ravisetti

Against a dark backdrop of space, speckled with bright dots representing hundreds of galaxies, a giant reddish splotch at the center depicts an active region of star formation.

James Webb Space Telescope stuns with glowing portrait of actively forming stars (photo)

By Monisha Ravisetti published

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has used its infrared eyes to produce a highly detailed image of two young stars more than 1,000 light-years away.

James Webb Space Telescope
Scientists bring the ComPair instrument into a blue vacuum chamber for thermal testing. The Goddard logo is on the side of the chamber and the scientists are wearing white sterile uniforms.

NASA to hunt deep space gamma-rays with new high-altitude balloon mission

By Monisha Ravisetti published

Next month, the agency plans to begin detecting invisible signals from some of our universe's most extreme regions.

Missions
NASA experts stand in a dark room with Earth visualizations to show the impacts of climate change.

NASA searches for climate solutions as global temperatures reach record highs

By Monisha Ravisetti published

Scientists with NASA discussed the urgency of climate change mitigation and the innovations that can help us reach our environmental goals.

Climate Change
A streak of blue glowing light is shown against a dark background of space. Around the streak are spots representing the boulders, each one circled to highlight the positions.

Hubble telescope spies cloud of space rocks created by DART asteroid impact (photos)

By Monisha Ravisetti published

NASA's ambitious asteroid collision mission may have created a swarm of boulders filled with key scientific information.

Hubble Space Telescope
looping lines around a glowing star with two different shades of blue on either hemisphere.

Strange two-faced dying star 'Janus' baffles scientists in cosmic oddity

By Monisha Ravisetti published

While routinely scanning the sky for the burnt-out remnants of dying stars, scientists stumbled upon a strange cosmic signal.

Stars
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