Read article: Australia raises eyebrows by splashing A$1bn into US quantum-computing start-up PsiQuantum
The bold investment has been met with a mixed response
Read article: China launches Chang’e-6 mission to return samples from the Moon’s far side
Craft is attempting to land in the northeastern side of the South Pole-Aitken Basin
Read article: World’s highest observatory begins operations in Chile
The University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory will study the origins of planets and galaxies
Read article: NASA demands new designs for cost-hit Mars Sample Return mission
Space agency admits that a new timeline of 2040 for the craft is “unacceptably too long”
Read article: US Electron-Ion Collider hits construction milestone
The Electron-Ion Collider will be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, New York
Read article: Europe plans to build 100-qubit quantum computer by 2026
Funded by Quantum Delta NL, the quantum computer is expected to be made publicly available
Read article: US astronomers slam cuts to the Chandra X-ray observatory
NASA says that increasing management costs means it cannot afford to the keep the “great observatory” operational
Read article: MEPs call for ‘urgent action’ to implement post-quantum encryption standards
Some 20 members of the European Parliament say that new standards are needed to protect against quantum computers
Read article: Peter Higgs: Nobel-prize-winning particle theorist dies aged 94
Peter Higgs's work in the 1960s contributed to the prediction of a new particle, the so-called Higgs boson
Read article: Construction complete on the 3200 megapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera
The instrument will spend the coming decade imaging over 20 million galaxies to create a 'movie' of the universe
