Doris Elín Urrutia
Doris is a news writer at Inverse covering Space.
She previously worked at Inverse as a contributor, writing stories that bridged archaeological and paleontological discoveries with modern life. She has written about astronomy and spaceflight for Space.com and on marine life for Scientific American.
Doris is a bilingual Spanish speaker, and has adored science and storytelling since her childhood days growing up with her South American immigrant parents in the Bronx, NY. When she isn't writing about science, she spends time with her rabbit.
A NASA Psychologist Reveals 3 Mental Health Hacks Astronauts Use In Space
Here’s how astronauts maintain their mental mettle.
The World’s First Wooden Satellite Could Be the Key To Solving the Space Debris Problem
Welcome to space, LignoSat!
Webb Telescope Discovered An Ancient Black Hole With A Voracious Appetite
How did galaxies get their hearts?
The Ancient Lost Maya City of Valeriana Had An Astronomical Site to Observe the Sun
A pair of buildings in a long lost Maya city were a special place for ceremony and sun-watching, a new study suggests.
New Solar Telescope Debuts Dramatic Footage of the Sun Unleashing A Huge Spray of Charged Particles
What a blast!
Look! This Giant, Hairy Cicada Lived With The Dinosaurs And Was Terrified Of Birds
Big, fat, hairy giant cicadas had to step up their game during the age of dinosaurs.
Six Asteroids — One Considered Potentially Hazardous — Flew Past Earth In Less Than 24 Hours
Asteroids large and small safely fly near Earth all the time.
Rare “Black Hole Triple” Discovered! A Ghost Star Haunted Its Sibling Stars After It Perished
This black hole triple is fascinatingly weird.
A Meteorite the Size of Four Mount Everests Hit Earth — It Left This Strange Aftermath
Simple life found a way to survive.
Inside the Extreme Workout Regimen of An Astronaut Stuck at the International Space Station
Feel the (orbital) burn.
Scientists Just Identified A Key Location On Mars Where Life Could Thrive
These pockets are little icy havens.
An Unusually Shaped Space Object Long Puzzled Astronomers — What It Turned Out to Be Was Truly Uncanny
Where there was one, there were actually two.
Will NASA’s Europa Clipper Really Find Aliens? Here’s What the Spacecraft Can and Can’t Do
What could be lurking under Europa’s icy shell?
Liftoff! NASA Just Successfully Launched The Largest Spacecraft to a Planet in the Agency’s 66-Year History
Let’s find some aliens!
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Moving In a ‘Very Unexpected’ Way, Bewildering Astronomers
The Hubble Space Telescope detected a funny motion in Jupiter's Great Red Spot.
Europa Clipper’s 7-Year, 1.8-Billion Mile Journey To Jupiter’s Moon Is More Intense Than You Think
The spacecraft will dance around the Solar System for several years.
A Coronal Mass Ejection Just Slammed Into Earth’s Magnetosphere — Here’s Where You’ll See the Auroras
Here we go again!
NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission May Launch As Early As Sunday Now
Hurricane Milton has its eyes on Florida's Space Coast.
Don’t Miss Your Chance To See This Extremely Elusive Meteor Shower In Tonight’s Clear Skies
Unleash the Dragon.
The Sun’s Coronal Magnetic Field In Finally Coming Into Focus Like Never Before
This strange part of the Sun is getting probed.
