It was 1983, and NASA was set to make history as Sally Ride prepared to become the first American woman to fly to space. The

Art Courtesy of Luna Aguilar. Blink, and you’ll miss it—scientists at the STAR Collaboration, an international effort, are smashing metal ions together at nearly the

Art Courtesy of CC Chong. A little beyond Earth, an unassuming lump of rock quietly orbits around the Sun. This is the asteroid (162173) Ryugu,