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How we study the Sun and its wind
How the Sun drives space weather, affects life on Earth, and why we invest billions in studying it.
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By Jatan Mehta | Dives into lunar exploration, space technology, Indian space, planetary science, and more.
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How NASA decides where to land on Mars
The multi-decade drive to explore the question “Did Mars once have life?” has opened the way for future pinpoint landings throughout the solar system.
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How we got to know the Moon’s gravity is lumpy
The Moon's gravity anomalies have been crashing spacecraft since the 1960s.
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Can we make Mars Earth-like?
Is terraforming Mars to make it habitable possible with the technology we have today?
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Daring gravity assist maneuvers in space
Ingenious maneuvers by missions to go over the Sun, chase a comet and sail using the Sun.
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My article on Mangalyaan was rejected 8 times but I published it anyway
This is the behind the scenes story of my article on missing science from India’s Mars orbiter. September 24, 2020 marked the six-year anniversary of India’s Mangalyaan spacecraft entering Mars orbit. Like every year, I expected Indian media outlets to publish articles about the mission’s success. After
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What are permanently shadowed regions on the Moon?
And why explore them.
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Are the Universe's smallest stars promising places for life?
When all sun-like stars die in few tens of billion years, planets orbiting red dwarf stars might be the only options for life to take root on.
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Chang’e 5 landing site: Near the volcanic complex of Rümker
China has returned Moon samples from a sweet scientific spot for their first sample return mission.
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India’s Shukrayaan orbiter to study Venus for over four years, launches in 2024
Shukrayaan will be the first mission to map Venus’ subsurface.
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Why explore Neptune
This azure ice giant challenges our understanding of how planets form and offers a potentially habitable moon.
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What SOFIA’s discovery of water on the Moon is, and isn’t
NASA and the Germany space agency’s airborne SOFIA telescope has detected water on the Moon’s surface. There are many misconceptions floating around this discovery so I’d like to clarify the nature of the findings and what it means for lunar science and exploration. Different from Chandrayaan 1