Prakash Chandra

Starship Enterprise, Elon Musk, Falcon 9, SpaceX, SpaceX Raptor, SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX BFR, SpaceX Starship, Mars, Mars Orbiter Mission, Mangalyaan, Polar Lander, Mars Climate Orbiter, JAXA Nozomi, SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System, Mars colony, NASA, multiplanetary species,

Starship Alone Won’t Take Us to Mars – We’ll Need Lots of Enterprise Too

Prakash Chandra 05/12/2018

It surprises no one that since 1960, barely a...

NASA Kepler, Kepler space telescope, red dwarf stars, exoplanets, NASA Tess, Kepler K2 mission, transit method, radial velocity method, exobiology, Goldilocks zone, habitable zone, SETI, Milky Way galaxy,

Farewell to Kepler, the First Great Planet-Hunter

Prakash Chandra 19/11/2018

Each new discovery Kepler made took us a step...

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Tom and Jerry Set to Map Water on Earth From Space

Prakash Chandra 02/06/2018

The GRACE-FO mission promises to open up a new...

An artist’s impression, aided by NASA data, of space debris surrounding Earth. Credit: NASA

Tiangong-1 Is a Fiery Wake-Up Call About Littering in Space

Prakash Chandra 29/03/2018

The only alternative to stopping littering is to watch...

According to the theory of panspermia, outer space seeded Earth with comet-borne primitive life forms over four billion years ago. Credit: Yuri_B/pixabay

Are We the Aliens We Seek?

Prakash Chandra 22/11/2017

The significance of a new finding is that it...

The Parkes Observatory, New South Wales. Credit: CSIRO/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0

Telescopes Pick up Strange Radio Signals Three Billion Years Old

Prakash Chandra 06/09/2017

What makes the latest FRBs so dramatic is that...