Â鶹´«Ã½

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Lost in Space-Time

Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the universe. You can sign up to the Lost in Space-Time newsletter here.
Sign up to our newsletter
Workers with NASA???s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) paint the bright red NASA ???worm??? logo on the side of an Artemis II solid rocket booster segment inside the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility (RPSF) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. The EGS team used a laser projector to mask off the logo with tape, then painted the first coat of the iconic design. The booster segments will help propel the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on the Artemis II mission to send four astronauts around the Moon as part of the agency???s effort to establish a long-term science and exploration presence at the Moon, and eventually Mars.

Space

NASA workers paint iconic logo onto Artemis II rocket boosters

These photographs show the scale of the work that goes into painting the NASA logo on spacecraft as they are readied for an epic new moon mission

Regulars

Space

Two lunar landers have fallen over – but they’re still doing okay

News

Person writing math equations on glass

Mathematics

Why science relies too much on mathematics

News

‘It is all but impossible life exists, and yet it is here’

Comment

‘It is all but impossible life exists, and yet it is here’

Culture

Odysseus spacecraft is the first private mission to land on the moon

Space

Odysseus spacecraft is the first private mission to land on the moon

News

Space

Famous supernova left a blazing hot neutron star at its centre

News

Space

Intuitive Machines is about to launch its Odysseus moon lander

News

An artist's impression of Orion re-entering Earth's atmosphere

Space

SpaceX aims to let astronauts avoid a radio blackout during re-entry

News

Space

Super Earths that seem to have oceans may actually be covered in magma

News

Theory of everything and geometry

Physics

Why physicists are rethinking the route to a theory of everything

Physicists’ search for a theory that explains all reality in one framework appeared to have stalled. But now they are reinvigorating the hunt by exploring a wild landscape of abstract geometry

Features

Space

Why it takes so much work to grow plants in space

News

Video

See antique clockwork marvels from China's Forbidden City

Video

Space

Starship launch: Next SpaceX flight test is expected this month

News

Comment

The best new science fiction books of February 2024

Culture

Piano Exit Overlay Banner Mobile Piano Exit Overlay Banner Desktop