Astronomy and Space Exploration
- July 16–July 22 – The fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact the planet Jupiter
- July 21 – R. Ibata, M. Irwin, and G. Gilmore discover the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, considered the closest galaxy to the Milky Way until 2003.
- October 12 – NASA loses contact with the Magellan spacecraft after a successful mission. The probe crashes into Venus shortly after.
- Asteroid 7484 Dogo Onsesn is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.
- 14032 Mego is discovered.
- 8C 1435+63 is discovered and at z=4.25 becomes the most distant known galaxy.
Read more about this topic: 1994 In Science
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