Pathway to Pluto
Louisa Preston reviews Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon
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China’s Chang’e-4 spacecraft makes historic landing on far side of the Moon
Mission is first to explore dramatic lunar landscape not visible from Earth
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The first step
Tushna Commissariat reviews the film First Man, directed by Damien Chazelle
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Thirteen tales that must be told
Jessica Wade reviews Wally Funk’s Race for Space: the Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer by Sue Nelson
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Reporting science controversies in China and ‘Oumuamua alien spacecraft claims
Science journalist Xiaoxue Chen joins the Physics World regulars
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Thirty Meter Telescope project clears latest legal hurdle
Hawaii’s supreme court rules in favour of construction starting for the embattled telescope
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NASA must fund major exoplanet mission top US scientists say
Craft would aim to directly image Earth-like planets around stars similar to our Sun
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NASA’s next-generation asteroid telescope set for South Africa
Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System to expand to the southern hemisphere
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Humans can withstand stronger gravity found on distant exoplanets, say physicists
Physical training could allow space colonists to survive on worlds more massive than Earth
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NASA launches Parker Solar Probe mission to ‘touch’ the Sun
Craft will fly seven times closer to the Sun’s surface than any previous mission
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