Space.com is the premier source of space exploration, innovation and astronomy news, and is celebrating humanity's ongoing expansion across the final frontier. Through accessible, comprehensive coverage of the latest news and discoveries, we transport visitors across the solar system and beyond. We like to explore space as much as the destination. At Space.com you can find everything from skywatching guides and stunning photos of the night sky to rocket launches and breaking news of robotic probes visiting other planets.
To celebrate space exploration, innovation and discovery.
The goal of Space.com was to cover the latest discoveries and missions in space like never before, 30 years after the Apollo 11 moon landing. Sally Ride was the first American woman in space when she was the first President of the company. The first man to walk on the moon was on the board of directors.
The Online News Association gave Space.com an Online Journalism Award for breaking news in 2003 for our coverage of the Columbia space shuttle disaster. It was an Honoree in the Science category in four of the last five years.
The parent company of Space.com changed its name in 2004. Tech Media Network acquired Space.com in 2009. Purch, the parent company of Space.com, was acquired by Future.
Space.com is the passion of writers and editors who are space fans and also trained journalists.
The Managing Director is Sarah Rafati Howard.
Content Director, Gemma Lavender.
tmalik@space.com is the Editor-in-Chief.
Mike Wall is the Spaceflight/Tech Channel Editor.
The Astronomy Channel Editor isMeghan Bartels.
Skywatching Channel Editor, jason.parnellbrookes@futurenet.com
The editor of the Tech Channel is Ian Stokes.
The Senior Writer is CHELSEA GOHD.
Tereza Pultarova is a senior writer.
Daisy Dobrijevic is a reference writer.
Alexander Cox is the Staff Writer for E-commerce.
Steve Spaleta is a senior video producer.
The Editor-in-Chief of Space.com since the beginning of the year, he has covered space news and science for 18 years. He joined the Space.com team in 2001 as an intern and later became a full-time spaceflight reporter. He became Space.com's managing editor in 2009. Space stories have been presented on CNN, Fox News, NPR and others.
He is an Eagle Scout, a Space Camp veteran, and has taken the ultimate comet ride while reporting on zero-gravity fires. He was a staff reporter for The Los Angeles Times, covering city and education beats. He has degrees in journalism from the University of Southern California and New York University.
Michael Wall joined Space.com in 2010 as a senior writer, reporting on Mars exploration, exoplanet discoveries, astrophysics and space technology. For Space.com, Mike has traveled through California's Mojave Desert with scientists on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity mission and helped launch balloon missions in Alaska. He chronicles the space tech revolution in Silicon Valley from his base in San Francisco.
Prior to joining Space.com, Mike was a science writer for the Idaho National Laboratory, a science writer for The Salinas Californian newspaper, and a science writer for the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Mike was a herpetologist and wildlife Biologist. He has a PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Sydney, Australia, a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona, and a graduate certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
In the summer of 2018, she joined Space.com as an intern and became a staff writer.
She worked at the American Museum of Natural History as a science communicator. Futurism, Jungles in Paris, Outer Places, All That is Interesting, AMNH Microbe Mondays, and The Daily Targum are just some of the publications that she has written for.
When not writing, reading, or following the latest science discoveries, she is writing music, singing, playing guitar, and performing with her band Foxanne.
Tereza is a science and technology journalist, aspiring fiction writer and amateur gymnast. She spent the first seven years of her career working as a reporter, script-writer and host for various TV programmes of the Czech Public Service Television.
She later took a career break to pursue further education and received a Master's in Science from the International Space University, France, as well as a Bachelor's in Journalism and a Master's in Cultural Anthropology from the Charles University.
She worked as a reporter at the Engineering and Technology magazine and as a maternity cover science editor at the European Space Agency.
Steven Spaleta has produced and edited space, science and entertainment-related videos for Space.com and Live Science since 2007, preceded by a decade of video, audio and live stage production for Pal Television East, Inc.
Steve is a producer and editor of Space.com's CosMix series on space-enthused artists. Grace Potter and Joe Satriani are two of the guests. Steve is a musician. He studied psychology at the State University of New York. He moved to New York from Croatia.
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