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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park told visitors Tuesday that invasive Joro spiders "may be hanging in a web near you.

July was the hottest month ever in the Lower 48 States - another escalation of our world into a hotter, more dangerous planet, where extreme weather events - such as heat waves, wildfires and hurricanes - will become more common and more extreme.

The newly discovered object looks like a star the size of our solar system, but produces 100 billion times more energy than any star.

The only total solar eclipse of 2026 will cross the Northern Hemisphere on Wednesday, Aug. 12, with a path of totality across parts of Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain. See when and where it will be visible.

Researchers were able to peek at the sun's scorching surface with the help of the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, located on the island of Maui in Hawaii.

Guatemalan officials on Monday began evacuating two villages near the Fuego volcano due to the ongoing eruption.