Michelle Starr is the Head Journalist at ScienceAlert. With a deep love and curiosity for the cosmos, she specializes in reporting on developments in space research and various natural sciences, including astronomy, biology, and oceanography. Her work has been featured in publications such as MSN, Yahoo News, and The Best Australian Science Writing anthologies.
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By: Michelle Starr
Bathymetry of a known caldera, Niuatahi, in the Tongan archipelago. (NOAA Vents Program)
Right under our noses.
By: Michelle Starr, Maki Nakamura
When it comes to aging well, diet, exercise, and social interaction may get most of the attention – but researchers are increasingly finding there's more to the story.
By: Michelle Starr
Chin up, buttercup!
Pluto's frozen landscapes and hazy atmosphere captured by the New Horizons mission in 2015. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)
By: Michelle Starr
A barreleye fish of the species Winteria telescopa. (Schmidt Ocean Institute/YouTube)
An artist's impression of Uragasaurus kalasinensis. (Pakorn Chotchaiyaporn for Nilpanapan et al., Sci. Rep., 2026)
By: Michelle Starr
(Nilpanapan et al., Sci. Rep., 2026) The popular image of paleontology is a scientist in shorts and a wide-brimmed hat, dramatically uncovering a magnifice
By: Michelle Starr
A NASA visualization of the accretion flow around a black hole. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman)
By: Michelle Starr
A multi-wavelength image of the center of the Milky Way. Looks delicious. (NASA, ESA, SSC, CXC and STScI)
