Space
Space missions spanned the solar system in 2024
Humankind accomplished new feats in space this year, including scooping up some of the moon’s farside and launching a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa.
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Humankind accomplished new feats in space this year, including scooping up some of the moon’s farside and launching a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa.
In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.
The first-ever close-up of an extragalactic star looks different than expected and might give a view of what stars look like at the end of their lives.
Phobos and Deimos could have formed from asteroid debris, a new study suggests. An upcoming sample return mission will help test the idea.
The DESI project previously reported that dark energy — long thought to be constant — changes over time. A new analysis reaffirms that claim.
Rocks returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission suggest volcanic activity just 2.8 billion years ago but lack telltale heat-generating elements.
A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.
The DESI survey reveals that active black holes in small galaxies are common. The findings may help reveal how the two cosmic bodies evolve together.
The dramatic dimming of a star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy could mark the birth of a black hole.
A 3-D map of the strange remains of a supernova seen in 1181 traces the odd tendrils of gas that jut out for several light-years in all directions.
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