A Passionate Individual who embodies an energetic personality, Mahalekshmi is an enthusiastic practitioner and dedicated learner of the creative arts, such as Writing, Public Speaking, and Theatre. She is a published author of several poems, short stories, articles, blogs, and various creative scripts of theatre spanning across Prosceniums and Streetplays. The fascination of an innovative world at the tip of her fingers fostered her love for writing from a very young age, steering her career in this field. She journeys along to master the art of storytelling and share the joys of the creative world. Writing for Starlust, Mahalekshmi has come to realize the excitement of learning about the cosmos in which we exist. Every narrative of the Suns and the Moons to a new step in space exploration, unraveling the secrets of the universe, satisfies an unknown thrill, one that she hopes everyone shares.
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.
Published: Sep 12, 2025
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.
Published: Sep 11, 2025
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.
Published: Sep 11, 2025
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.
Published: Sep 7, 2025
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.
Published: Sep 6, 2025
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.
Published: Sep 6, 2025
'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.
Published: 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.
Updated: Dec 4, 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.
Published: 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.
Published: 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.
Published: 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.
Updated: Dec 4, 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.
Published: 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.
Published: 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.
Published: 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.
Published: 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.
Updated: 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.
Published: 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.
Published: Aug 28, 2025
NASA’s new SPHEREx mission makes historic observation of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
The data could provide new insights into the comet’s chemical makeup and physical features as it zooms through our system.
Updated: Dec 4, 2025