It was a bad year for good news, but only because the tumult and drama surrounding the 2024 US election and ongoing wars overshadowed some of the discoveries made in the world’s observatories, field studies and laboratories. Some of those findings could make us healthier, while others expand the outer limits of our knowledge of the universe.
Moon rocks from Terra Incognita
There’s something mysterious about the side of the moon that always faces away from us. Flyby missions show a very different, lighter surface with fewer craters and a thicker crust than the familiar face. China landed the first ...