Mahalekshmi P
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.
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NASA’s billion-dollar Mars sample mission faces a setback as Trump signals intent to cut funding
The samples from the Martian surface, collected after spending billions of dollars, might have to be left behind.
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The massive black hole is 600 million light-years away.
NASA struggles to reduce activity on the International Space Station after massive budget cut
The reductions on the ISS will span across the experiments being conducted onboard and the number of crew members operating in space.
NASA's Nighthawk: A new chapter in the Mars helicopter mission that will scan for proof of life
The proposal of the Nighthawk is a bigger step in the Mars helicopter mission to search for water and life in a volcanic canyon network.
Soviet Spacecraft failed to land on Venus and is plummeting back to Earth after 53 years
The Soviet Union's Kosmos 482 had a rocket-assisted toss, leaving a major payload in orbit that will have an uncontrolled reentry.
NASA's Perseverance rover captures the visual of Martian 'dust devils' devouring each other
The navigation camera captured multiple swirling air and dust columns on the Martian surface near the Jezero Crater.
Starship launches to happen every other week at Texas Starbase launch site: FAA approves
SpaceX is now allowed to conduct up to 25 Starship launches and landings in a year, compared to the previous 5.
NASA's NICER records periodic X-ray flares near massive black holes and maps their cosmic evolution
A low mass object passing through the gas of a black hole slowly disintegrates, leaving behind debris observed in periodic X-ray flares.
NASA's James Webb unveils the mystery of the Milky Way's most common planets
Sub-Neptunes are the most common exoplanets observed in our galaxy, and James Webb telescope helps study exoplanet TOI-421 b.
Scientists track falling spacecraft to measure how satellite air pollution affects Earth's atmosphere
European scientists tracked the atmospheric reentry of Salsa, one of ESA’s cluster satellites, by chasing it on a chartered business jet.
'Flower Moon' of May 2025: Here's how to witness the full moon rise in the night sky
The celestial phenomenon will be at its brightest next week, which can be witnessed from a place with less pollution and clear skies.
Elon Musk confirms availability of SpaceX's satellite system Starlink in Congo
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed Starlink's availability in Congo, a big win that adds up to almost half of Africa’s countries using the provider.
NASA's Chandra telescope discovers fracture in galactic 'bone' caused by a speeding pulsar
Astronomers describe a fracture they discovered in the Milky Way galaxy with the assistance of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope.
Elon Musk's SpaceX outpost, Starbase, officially becomes a new city in Texas
SpaceX employees, who mainly occupy the town, voted in favor of Starbase becoming a city.
Trump's 2026 budget proposes a 24% reduction in NASA’s space exploration funding
President Trump’s ‘skinny’ budget may hinder various ongoing and future space missions.
Trump's 2026 budget reimagines NASA's Artemis, hands moon missions to private sector
The proposal puts forth a ‘sustainable’ budget that shuts down the Gateway moon-orbiting space station and halts SLS and Orion.
NASA's astrophysics mission gets delayed amidst significant budget cuts, with new dates in 2026
NASA stated that the call for research proposals for the next Small Explorer (SMEX) mission would be postponed until April 2026.
NASA is sending astronauts around the Moon sooner than expected — first time in over 50 years
The Artemis 2 mission will be NASA’s return to the surface of the moon with the first crewed lunar flyby of the Orion spacecraft.
NASA conducts fifth all-female spacewalk in latest milestone outside the ISS
Astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers step out in space to shift an antenna and prepare the space station for a new set of solar arrays.
ESA's Biomass satellite launched aboard Vega C to track carbon and fight climate change
The Biomass satellite is tasked with monitoring the forests and ecosystems to calculate their shifts and role in carbon cycles.