Geo – Typhoon Dujuan (TH): A tropical cyclone formed over the western North Pacific, causing torrential rain, flooding, and landslides along eastern Japan’s Pacific coast+ A typhoon is a tropical cyclone in the western North Pacific with sustained winds of at least 64 knots (about 119 km/h).

S&T – McGetchin Crater (TH): 222-m-wide lunar impact crater formed in 2024 near the Moon’s eastern edge, likely from an asteroid or comet. It is the largest newly formed impact crater identified in the Solar System+ The Moon’s near-absence of an atmosphere results in negligible atmospheric braking or burning of incoming space debris before impact with the surface.

Elias 2-24 b: Astronomers confirmed Elias 2-24 b as the youngest known exoplanet, at less than 1 million years old, using archival W. M. Keck Observatory observations+ Elias 2-24 b is a Jovian planet (Jupiter-like gas giant) orbiting Elias 2-24, a young T Tauri star (a pre-main-sequence star) in the Ophiuchus molecular cloud, about 450 light-years away+ It is actively accreting gas and dust from its surrounding protoplanetary disk during a rapid atmosphere-building stage+ It lies within a narrow disk gap, about 55 astronomical units from its star.