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The physicist, BBC presenter and author on snowflakes, art v science and the time Paul McCartney quizzed him about one of Saturn’s moons What is the inspiration behind your latest live show, Emergence? It came from a book that I’ve loved for years: The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Johannes Kepler. Kepler is most famous for his laws of planetary motion in and around 1610, but he wrote this little boo
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Even as a triumphant moon flyby primes agency for a 2028 landing, Trump’s proposed budget cuts cast pall on US space program The astronauts on board Artemis II were “almost poets”, Nasa’s administrator, Jared Isaacman, declared on Friday, referring to their inspiring words as they swung above the lunar surface. They were, he said, “ambassadors for humanity” as they became the first humans to trav
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Soon, thanks to the advance of robots, the only reason left to send humans to the moon will be as an ultra-expensive sport Martin Rees is the astronomer royal and a former president of the Royal Society; Donald Goldsmith is an astrophysicist and science communicator The 2020s has seen a revival of the “ Apollo spirit ”. The US and China are seemingly in a race to send humans to the moon by the en
The Artemis II, and the four astronauts aboard the Orion space capsule, splashed down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on Friday night, with all four astronauts in good health. Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Christina Koch of Nasa, and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, have just become the first humans to travel to the moon, and return
The world watched on as four astronauts on the 10-day Artemis II mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off California on Friday ‘Just the beginning’: Artemis II crew splashes down after record-breaking moon flyby Continue reading…
Relacorilant, typically used to treat Cushing’s syndrome, could improve outcomes in platinum-resistant cases A drug originally used to treat a rare disease could extend the lives of patients with an aggressive form of ovarian cancer, according to a clinical trial. Platinum-resistant ovarian cancer occurs when the disease progresses within six months of starting platinum-based chemotherapy. This f
Follow the latest updates as astronauts prepare for fiery re-entry in Earth’s atmosphere after 10-day mission to fly around the moon Artemis II crew to end record-setting mission with splashdown Sign up for the Breaking News US email While we wait for Nasa’s live coverage of reentry to start at about 6.30pm ET, here are some more highlights from the mission in pictures: From its spectacular 1 Apr
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Dr Nigel Fairweather and Philip Clarke on the newly released Nasa photographs showing the far side of the moon There has been much excitement about the crew of Artemis II seeing the far side of the moon ( Artemis II swings back around after completing record-setting moon flyby, 6 April ). Let us remember that on 7 October 1959 the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 (also known as Lunik 3) photographed the
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Southwark Playhouse Borough, London The songs soar and blast in this inventive tale of a toxic romance – though it needs a few tweaks to be truly brilliant The scope and ambition of this dark musical by Theo Jamieson and Adam Lenson are boundless. A jagged, time- and space-travelling drama about the emotional wreckage of a mutually destructive relationship, it begins with reports of a young astro
Andy Jassy tells shareholders that long-awaited rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink is ‘on the verge’ of going live Amazon has said its long-awaited satellite internet rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink will finally go live in “mid-2026”. The chief executive, Andy Jassy, said in a letter to shareholders that the technology company was “on the verge of launching Amazon Leo” and had secured “revenue commitmen
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The four astronauts touched down on Earth off the coast of California, concluding historic 10-day mission Artemis II splashdown – live updates The Artemis II, and the four astronauts aboard the Orion space capsule, has splashed down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Nasa has confirmed. The spacecraft touched down at 5.07pm (1.07am BST) after a 10-day journey around the moon and b
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