Lucy

Lucy Atkins’s follow-up to her fourth novel, Magpie Lane, will please that book’s many admirers. Once again she serves up vivid, slightly unhinged characters, a plot tangle worthy of a kitten in a knitting bag and a richly atmospheric backdrop. In this case the setting, an ancient windmill and cottage on the South Downs, is brought to life in such detail – from its trapdoors and untrustworthy upper storeys, to its damp patches, ghosts and secret tunnel – that it threatens to upstage the humans who live in it.In the…

NASA’s plodding, iterative approach to its Artemis program gives the distinct impression that it has somehow forgotten how to land humans on the Moon. A closer inspection uncovers the many reasons—whether justified or not—for why it’s taking NASA so long to return boots to those vaunted lunar grounds.Better Mobility & Cameras: NASA & Axiom's New Spacesuits | TechmodoWhen Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt said goodbye to the Moon in December 1972, no one would have guessed that…

A gifted singer and accomplished multi-instrumentalist, Lucy Farrell has spent the past decade playing alongside British folk aristocracy in assorted aggregations, most recently as part of the Furrow Collective with Alasdair Roberts, Rachel Newton and Emily Portman. This debut has been a long time coming, a collection of songs written along the way, through romances, breakups, motherhood and more.Its freshness, then, is all the more remarkable. Opener Paperthin bursts out in a flurry of guitars and double-tracked vocals…

It has been one and a half years since one of the most ambitious missions of NASA, Lucy, took off for the largest planet in our solar system. The unmanned spacecraft was sent on a 12-year journey to ten different asteroids with a focus towards the Jupiter trojans, a large group of asteroids that share the planet Jupiter's orbit around the Sun. This is the first time NASA has conducted a mission to study these far-off asteroids. And recently, it took pictures of its target asteroids for the first time ever.According to a…

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is still millions of miles from its destination, where it will study the Trojan asteroids. Despite that distance, the Lucy mission has captured a first glimpse of these mysterious asteroids in a new video, which NASA shared on Twitter. The Trojan asteroids are some of the more mysterious asteroids that humanity has discovered. These asteroids are made up of two swarms, trapped both in front of and behind Jupiter as it orbits our star. Lucy will study the Trojan asteroids to discover if…

A NASA probe sent to observe Jupiter’s swarm of asteroids recently caught the first glimpse of its rocky targets, capturing deep-space images of four of the mysterious Trojans. What Is Planet Nine and Why Can’t We Find It?The Lucy spacecraft used its highest resolution imager, L’LORRI (Lucy LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager), to photograph four Trojan asteroids during a two-day period from March 25 to 27, NASA announced on Thursday. The first asteroids to be seen by Lucy are: Eurybates, Polymele, Leucus, and Orus. Those…

A view of Ganymede, as imaged by the Juno probe. Image: NASAJUICE is scheduled to perform 35 Jovian moon flybys, but the mission will end with the spacecraft settling into a circular orbit around Ganymede, where it will work for an estimated six months and come as close as 311 miles (500 km) to its surface. By doing so, “Juice will be the first spacecraft to ever orbit a moon in the outer Solar System,” ESA claims. The space agency chose a good target, as Ganymede, the biggest moon in the solar system, is the only known…

“In another life we were arsonists,” goes a lyric on this first album from Boygenius, the supergroup consisting of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus – three of the most thoughtful, wry and quietly powerful indie-rock songwriters of the past decade. It’s a telling line for music that blazes with feeling, and is unabashed about drolly skewering and examining the male ego (see: songs about internalised notions of masculinity and lines such as “And I am not an old man having an existential crisis at a Buddhist…

After the glitz of Wednesday’s instalment in the monthlong season of Comica anniversary events at London’s Century Club, last night’s session was a distinctly more intimate affair as creators Lucie Arnoux (Je Ne Sais Quoi) and Lucy Sullivan (Barking, Shelter) took to the stage to discuss drawing from life and their own work with the comics form. Comica’s Paul Gravett opens proceedings (L to R: Lucy Sullivan, Lucy Arnoux, Paul Gravett) Coincidentally both Arnoux and Sullivan took the same illustration and animation course…

Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore's reunion on The Drew Barrymore Show had a surprising twist when Drew mentioned that Liu still has some 'beautiful' and ‘playful’ nude portraits of her. The photos were taken during the filming of the blockbuster Charlie's Angels, in which they both starred. She reminisced about the time Liu, nude portraits of her in her dressing room on the set of the movie. After the episode aired, Drew posted the clip on her Instagram account. A lot of fans flocked to the comments section and left…