A science journalist and writer who has been writing since 1997 on a wide range of science and technology topics. Worked with print, audio, audio-visual and online media. Over the years, he honed his skills to tell stories of how we and other living organisms emerged on earth and our and their place in cosmos. He is elated to get the opportunity to write for ‘Starlust’. He hopes that it will give him scope to know, explore and portray space and its unending mystery more intimately. He is an avid reader. His favorite subjects are origin of the universe, big bang, black holes, evolution and films. The books by Carl Sagan, Paul Davies, and Lee Smolin fuel his interest in space further. His stories appeared in online magazines of Springer Nature, UK, Australian magazine ‘Cosmos’, US-based ‘Chemical & Engineering News’, London-based ‘SciDev.Net’, and India-based ‘Down To Earth’, ‘The Telegraph’, and ‘The Statesman’. He wrote scripts for science documentary films for CSIR, New Delhi, and science radio talks for ‘All India Radio’, Kolkata and did research work for an audio-visual series on zero-waste for Mumbai-based ‘Times Television Network’.
Ancient metal-rich Martian lake could power future human industries on Mars
Humans can reach Alpha Centauri within lifetime by boarding a light-powered spacecraft
Scientists may have finally found where stars stop forming in the Milky Way's disc
Scientists send microscopic worms to space to aid future Moon missions
Resilient fungus found on NASA spacecraft could survive trip to Mars. Here's why it surprises scientists.
Scientists find evidence a supermassive black hole existed long before the galaxy around it took shape
Scientists identify a 'bathtub ring' on Mars, hinting at a long-lost ocean on the Red Planet
NASA's Parker Solar Probe makes surprising revelation about mechanism behind solar storms
How much water does an Earth-like planet need to harbor life? A new study has the answer
A new simulation shows what happens when a supermassive black hole tears a star apart
NASA's Hubble provides spectacular views of a barred spiral galaxy 380 million light-years away
What creates Venus' mysterious lower haze? Astronomers may finally have the answer
Century-old meteorite from Azerbaijan reveals new clues about Mercury
Clumps of apparently 'collisionless' dark matter may explain certain cosmic puzzles
Scientists discover three types of binary black hole mergers in the universe—here's what they are
Thanks to the James Webb Telescope, we may have finally found evidence of the universe's first stars
Can we really terraform Mars? New study outlines a plan and the challenges
New solar telescope uses sunspots to help detect distant exoplanets
Dark matter may not be just one state—new study proposes two versions
