Lee Billings

Lee Billings is a science journalist, whose work has been published in Nature, New Scientist, and Popular Mechanics, among others. His first book is Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars (2013).

Written by Lee Billings

Photo of Jupiter’s moon Europa with a surface covered in reddish-brown lines and patches, set against the blackness of space.

essayBiology

Onward to Europa

The oceans of Jupiter’s ice worlds might be swimming with life – so why do we keep sending robots to Mars?

Lee Billings

A man speaking outdoors in front of a large metal structure with mirrors, with a brick building and palm trees in the background.

essayAstronomy

Catching the stars

Roger Angel is one of the world’s most brilliant and audacious engineers. Could he design the next energy revolution?

Lee Billings

A roadside sculpture of Saturn at sunset, with a curving road and cars in the background and silhouetted hills.

essayCosmology

Drive-thru astronomy

Planets in potato fields and asteroids in gravel: how a Maine highway illuminates the strange history of the solar system

Lee Billings