Mahalekshmi P

Mahalekshmi P

A Passionate Individual who embodies an energetic personality, and an enthusiastic practitioner and dedicated learner of the creative arts such as Writing, Public Speaking, and Theatre. As a published author of several poems, short stories, articles, blogs, and various creative scripts of theatre spanning across Prosceniums and Street plays, the fascination of an innovative world at the tip of one's fingers fostered my love for writing from a very young age, steering my career in this field. I journey along to master the art of storytelling and share the joys of the creative world.

Hungry star devours its cosmic twin faster than ever observed, baffling scientists

The greedy white dwarf star in question is the V Sagittae, which is a highly luminous binary star and is found eating its larger twin.
1 day ago

Astronomers discover supermassive black holes hiding behind cosmic dust for billions of years—until now

These black holes were found to be hosted by candidate galaxies and formed less than one billion years after the Big Bang.
1 day ago

Makemake of the Kuiper Belt not just a 'dormant frozen' world—new JWST evidence surprises scientists

This dwarf planet is the second trans-Neptunian object with a confirmed presence of gas.
2 days ago

NASA's 'Accident' helps understand hidden chemistry of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn

A peculiar object is helping astronomers explain why a common element remained undetected in the Jupiter and Saturn atmospheres.
2 days ago

Scientists solve 50-year-old mystery, discover solar flares 6.5 times hotter than expected

The energy released from the outer atmosphere of the sun spreads across our system, and its temperature is much higher than previously believed.
6 days ago

Best time to see the September Epsilon Perseids—all you need to know

The relatively lesser-known September Epsilon Perseids from the constellation Perseus will be at their best after midnight.
7 days ago

NASA’s TESS captures two Earth-like exoplanets orbiting an orange dwarf

The satellite found two rocky exoplanets comparable to Earth in size, orbiting a nearby K-type star, as candidates for its mission.
7 days ago

'Infant' universe had magnetic fields weaker than your typical toy magnet, study reveals

The magnetic fields of the early universe only had enough strength to be compared to the magnetism of neurons in the human brain.
Sep 5, 2025

Our third interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, has a largely carbon dioxide-infused 'coma'

The coma that surrounds the nucleus of the comet has a large amount of carbon dioxide, along with typical materials of a comet.
Sep 5, 2025

Spacecraft's electrical discharges threaten safety of crucial space equipment. Study finds solution

The number of electrical discharges on a spacecraft correlates with the electrons in space, damaging the sensitive systems on board.
Sep 5, 2025

NASA’s Juno Mission finally detects 'missing' auroral signature of Jupiter's second-biggest moon

The mission discovered the auroral footprint of the most distant moon, Callisto, which had remained a mystery for astronomers.
Sep 3, 2025

Evidence of ‘standing shocks’ in black hole accretion flows rewrites our understanding of cosmic signals

'This advances our understanding of accretion physics, a field central to unraveling black hole behavior and galaxy evolution,' explained a scientist.
Aug 31, 2025

NASA’s TESS detected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS weeks before official discovery—and caught it in action

The satellite’s archival data indicates that the object in our solar system, two months before it was found, was clearly active and moving through space.
Aug 31, 2025

Earth-like exoplanet 41 light-years away has no atmosphere to support life, new JWST data reveals

Whether the planet GJ 1132 b had an atmosphere was long debated due to conflicting old data.
Aug 30, 2025

NASA’s Chandra observed the violent internal conflict of a star before it exploded into a supernova

One of the most studied events in space, the Cassiopeia A supernova has much more to reveal about its past, as indicated by recent research.
Aug 30, 2025

Catch a glimpse of the Dumbbell Nebula—the first planetary nebula ever discovered—in August's night sky

Messier 27, also known as the Dumbbell Nebula, is one of the easiest planetary nebulae to observe in the sky throughout the month.
Aug 29, 2025

Heart of Butterfly Nebula in the constellation Scorpius reveals clues to Earth's creation

This new James Webb image focuses on the centre of the Butterfly Nebula and its dusty torus, giving us a view of its complex structure.
Aug 29, 2025

NASA discovers rocky lumps in the Mars mantle, evidence of a violent past with impacts and quakes

The space agency found the aftermath of massive impacts beneath the planet’s surface using the recordings of the InSight lander.
Aug 29, 2025

Protoplanetary disks are not so flat after all, suggests compelling evidence from ALMA

The knowledge of how planets formed might now be getting a massive twist due to ALMA's new findings.
Aug 29, 2025

SpaceX's Starship deploys eight dummy satellites in latest launch, splashes down in the Indian Ocean

The latest test of SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship achieved the first-ever deployment of a test payload into space before return.
Aug 28, 2025
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