‘Spiders on Mars’ and ancient sea monsters: 5 of the biggest science stories you read in 2024

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From orcas wearing salmon hats to April’s total solar eclipse, it’s been a big year for science news. We’ve brought together the five stories that you loved the most in 2024, starting with a cosmic conundrum that could rewrite everything we thought we knew about the universe.

We’ve been wrong about the universe

Illustration of the expansion of the universe. (Image credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library via Getty Images)

At the start of the year, the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes teamed up to confirm one of the most troubling conundrums in physics — that the universe is expanding at different speeds depending on where we look.

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