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This undated photo provided by NASA Tuesday, June 9, 2026, shows the Artemis III crew including, from left, Andre Douglas, Luca Parmitano, Randy Bresnik and Frank Rubio, posing for an official portrait. (Bill Stafford/NASA via AP)

NASA unveils Artemis III astronauts to test technology for a future moon landing

9:45 AM on Tuesday, June 9

NASA has revealed the crew for its Artemis III mission, the next step in eventually landing astronauts on the moon

‘Rings of Saturn: Enemy Within’ Launches as New Military Sci-Fi Thriller Inspired by UFO Narratives, Space Command Myths, and Deep Space Conflict Themes

4:00 AM on Tuesday, June 9

FILE - Sam Altman arrives at the U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, file)

OpenAI files confidential SEC paperwork for IPO, opening the door to a Wall Street debut

2:52 PM on Monday, June 8

OpenAI has filed preliminary paperwork to potentially become a publicly traded company

A rancher arrives for a news conference with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins at the Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory in Kerrville, Texas, Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

A flesh-eating cattle parasite spreads beyond Texas as new screwworm cases are found

6:58 AM on Monday, June 8

Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a pest that could potentially devastate the nation’s cattle industry

FILE - President Bush, left, shakes hands with Robert Coles, center, a child psychologist, researcher and professor of psychiatry from Cambridge, Mass., as first lady Laura Bush looks on during the National Endowment for the Arts Awards ceremony at Constitution Hall, April 22, 2002, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Psychiatrist Robert Coles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author who championed needs of children, dies

5:59 PM on Sunday, June 7

Harvard University psychiatrist and author Robert Coles has died

Residents pass by a collapsed structure after an earthquake in General Santos, Philippines on Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo)

A 7.8 magnitude quake in the Philippines kills at least 35, collapses buildings and sparks tsunami

5:13 PM on Sunday, June 7

A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake has rocked the southern Philippines, killing at least 35 people

Xerente Indigenous people, part of a fire brigade formed by women, ignite fires as part of a controlled burn with dry palm leaves during a fire prevention operation along Brazil's environmental protection agency, IBAMA, at the Xerente territory, near Tocantinia, Tocantins state, Brazil, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

In Brazil’s Cerrado region, Indigenous fire practices reshape wildfire strategy

5:34 AM on Sunday, June 7

Brazilian environmental officials have followed a zero-fire strategy for land management in the Cerrado savanna in central and northern Brazil

In this June 6, 2026 photo released by Taipei City Zoo, a male red panda, part of a pair received from China, in the first such exchange in more than a decade, looks up in an enclosure at the Taipei City Zoo in Taiwan. (Taipei City Zoo via AP)

Taipei Zoo welcomes a pair of red pandas from China, first in over a decade

2:56 AM on Saturday, June 6

A zoo in Taiwan's capital has received a pair of endangered red pandas from China

A worker mows the grass at Toronto Stadium, Thursday June 4, 2026, in Toronto, in preparation for World Cup soccer tournament. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

The World Cup pitches are the result of years of engineering to find just the right grass

10:04 PM on Friday, June 5

The World Cup fields cover so much ground they’ll be hard to ignore

An official with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension works at the State Operations Center during Texas' response to the New World Screwworm in Austin, Texas on Friday, June 5, 2026. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Texas governor wants to speed up work on a fly-breeding factory to fight a cattle parasite

2:21 PM on Friday, June 5

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is concerned that a new factory isn’t expected to start work for more than a year on mitigating the New World screwworm fly infestation in his state

FILE - This photo provided by Roscosmos shows the International Space Station from a Russian Soyuz MS-19 spaceship after undocking on March 30, 2022. (Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP, File)

Astronauts briefly take shelter during repair to fix leak on the International Space Station

8:22 AM on Friday, June 5

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have briefly taken shelter during a repair to fix a new leak

FILE - Firefighters are silhouetted amid an operation to control the Sandy Fire, May 19, 2026, in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Caroline Brehman, File)

Wildfires are making the US smoggy again, reversing progress on cleaner air, study finds

11:01 AM on Thursday, June 4

A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog

Drake University student Harrison Ziegler holds a bottle as he collects a water sample Wednesday, May 6, 2026, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)

Takeaways from how water pollution in Iowa can deflate summer fun

6:02 AM on Thursday, June 4

Iowa’s waterways face significant pollution challenges due to agricultural runoff and sewage

Hannah Ray J Childs kayaks at a whitewater park she helped create on the Maquoketa River Thursday, May 7, 2026, in Manchester, Iowa. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)

In Iowa, water pollution is a health threat that also disrupts summer fun

6:01 AM on Thursday, June 4

Iowa’s waterways face significant pollution challenges due to agricultural runoff and sewage

Helio Lands Fifth Lunar Mission as NASA Artemis Contract Expands Growing Lunar Portfolio

4:00 AM on Thursday, June 4

FILE - An adult New World screwworm fly sits in this undated photo. (Denise Bonilla/U.S. Department of Agriculture via AP)

Screwworm fly detected in Texas decades after cattle threat was largely eradicated in US

5:31 PM on Wednesday, June 3

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed that the New World screwworm fly has arrived in south Texas

María Inés Barría, a virologist at the Universidad San Sebastián, works at the university, in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Tools to fight hantavirus show promise despite limited funding. Now researchers hope to continue

3:30 PM on Wednesday, June 3

There were no treatments or vaccines to protect people during the recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship

FILE - Beluga whales swim in a tank at Marineland amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, June 9, 2023. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Canadian government endorses a plan to move whales from shuttered Marineland park to US and Spain

2:51 PM on Wednesday, June 3

The Canadian government has endorsed a plan to move the last remaining captive whales from a shuttered theme park and zoo in Ontario to aquariums in the U.S. and Spain

This image provided by NASA shows four-in-one photos of Mars taken by NASA's Maven spacecraft that's been orbiting the red planet since 2014? Maven is no more, NASA just declared it dead. (NASA via AP)

NASA declares its Mars Maven spacecraft dead after six months of silence

7:48 AM on Wednesday, June 3

NASA's Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead after six months of radio silence

FILE - Meta's Stanton Springs Data Center is visible Jan. 13, 2026, in Newton County, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries

7:00 AM on Wednesday, June 3

According to a United Nations University report, the environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries

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