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The Oct. 2 partial solar eclipse, known as an annular or “ring of fire” eclipse, is about to begin over Easter Island and South America. Watch it for free right here.

Astrophysicists estimate that any exponentially growing technological civilization has only 1,000 years until its planet will be too hot to support life.

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on an ancient supernova, revealing fresh evidence that a crisis in cosmology called the Hubble tension isn’t going anywhere soon.

By tracing every single connection between nerve cells in a single fruit fly’s brain, scientists have created the “connectome,” a tool that could help reveal how brains work.

A thunderstorm seen in gamma-ray vision is a complex, frenetic lightshow when viewed from above the clouds.

Hurricanes like Helene may indirectly cause deaths for years. Stress, pollution and a loss of infrastructure could all contribute to tropical cyclone fatalities.

Experts urge caution in calling bottlenosed dolphins’ gesture a humanlike “smile,” but agree it seems to be important for how the animals communicate.

Unlike past flu shots, flu vaccines for the 2024-2025 season don’t contain the “Yamagata lineage” of influenza viruses because evidence suggests that type of flu no longer exists.

The sun just unleashed one of its largest solar explosions in recent years, temporarily causing a radio blackout on Earth and spitting out a coronal mass ejection that will likely collide with our planet this weekend.

Very little is known about the origins of stuttering, but there are several possible explanations.