Shaoni Bhattacharya

Recent articles by Shaoni Bhattacharya

To create an off-Earth habitat, water could be added to a basic structure to allow fungi to grow around its frame. Credit: Redhouse

Mushrooms on Mars: NASA could grow bases using fungi

Dr Simona Giacintucci

How astronomers discovered the biggest explosion in the Universe

An artist's impression of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA

James Webb Space Telescope How will JWST observe the Universe?

A view of the Mayall Telescope (tallest telescope, right) at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab; © 2010-2019 The Regents of the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

How the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument could solve one of the Universe’s biggest mysteries

NASA’s MESSENGER mission monitored Mercury’s magnetic fields, revealing they flowed down (blue) and up (red). Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Understanding Mercury’s magnetic poles

Willy Benz, Principal Investigator of the CHEOPS spacecraft. Credit: SPACE/UNIBE/Alessandro Della Bella

Interview How ESA's CHEOPS mission will study exoplanets

What will happen when our Sun dies? This is an image of our host star captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA.

What will happen when our Sun dies?

Jeff Bezos pictured with a model of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander. Credit: Blue Origin

Will NASA return humans to the Moon? We asked a space exploration expert