Read article: Physics World announces its Breakthrough of the Year finalists for 2020
Mixed beams for particle therapy and massive quantum correlations are on our list
Read article: China launches GECAM all-sky scanner to study extreme cosmic events
The Gravitational Wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor mission will study fast-radio bursts and gamma-ray bursts related to gravitational-wave events
Read article: Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission returns asteroid sample to Earth
16 kg capsule landed in Australia’s remote outback and it will now be studied in Japan
Read article: Arecibo Observatory destroyed as metal platform collapses onto the iconic telescope
Recent cable failures cause 900 tonne suspended metal platform to fall onto the 305 m-wide telescope
Read article: China launches sample-return mission to the Moon
Chang’e-5 will attempt to bring back 2 kg of lunar material to study the evolution history of our closest neighbour
Read article: Arecibo Observatory will be decommissioned, says US National Science Foundation
Astronomers and the public lament the loss of an iconic radio telescope
Read article: Second cable failure puts iconic Arecibo Observatory at risk of collapse
"Crisis" as second cable snaps supporting a metal tower platform above the telescope's main reflector dish
Read article: Japanese Nobel-prize-winning neutrino pioneer Masatoshi Koshiba dies aged 94
Masatoshi Koshiba shared the 2002 Nobel prize for the detection of cosmic neutrinos
Read article: Nobel laureates claim European Commission set to slash photonics budget by 30%
Gérard Mourou, Stefan Hell and Theodore Hänsch have warned that cuts to photonics would be disastrous for Europe's technological goals
Read article: Controversy erupts among astronomers over whether phosphine really was discovered on Venus
The tone of some of the criticism over the discovery sparks outrage in the community
