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Watch a video about the 1908 Tunguska explosion. The Tunguska explosion: June 30, 1908 On June 30, 1908, the largest asteroid impact in recorded history occurred on a warm summer

The battered surface of Mercury, as seen by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft. When space rocks hit Mercury, debris should be ejected from its surface. And some of this material should have

View larger. | Artist’s illustration of a hot Jupiter type of exoplanet. They are similar to Jupiter or Saturn but orbit very close to their stars, so they’re searingly hot.

Artist’s concept of Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein. Astronomers have spotted the mega comet shooting out jets of carbon monoxide as it barrels toward the sun. Image via NSF/ AUI/ NSF NRAO/ M.

Could desert lichen survive on other worlds? A new study looked at a hardy Mojave Desert lichen and found it could live even under harsh solar radiation. Image via AdisResic/

Asteroids are small rocky bodies, left over from the formation of the solar system. Most orbit in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but some sweep near Earth. Learn

This image shows the bright circumstellar disk around the star TWA 7. It is a combination of images from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and the Very Large Telescope’s SPHERE instrument.

Is this a dark galaxy, made mostly of dark matter? Astronomers have named it CDG-2, for Candidate Dark Galaxy. It lies among a cluster of galaxies in the direction of

Eric Warrant of Lund University describes the new study about bogong moths. Video via University of South Australia. Bogong moths use star patterns, the Milky Way and Earth’s magnetic field

This is the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. But where is the center of the universe? Infrared image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ Susan Stolovy (SSC/Caltech) et al. Where is