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
Read article: NASA must fund major exoplanet mission top US scientists say
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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Towards renewable life-support systems in space
Microgravity experiments reveal that a novel nanostructuring technique could boost the efficiency of solar-fuel cells in space
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China unveils plans for two new gravitational-wave missions
Craft includes a gravitational-wave detector to be launched by 2033
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Watching planet birth, citizen science and a quantum love song
Chris Lintott discusses the part-formed planet PDS 70b and the evolving Zooniverse
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope delayed yet again – to 2021
Delay means that the mission's cost will soar by 10% to $8.8bn
Read article: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope delayed yet again – to 2021
