The day after the summer solstice and the longest day of the year look up to the sky for the June full moon, which is also the "strawberry moon."
Why it matters: It's rare for a full Moon to happen within a day of a solstice and this usually occurs about every 19 to 20 years, according to Space.com.
A new algorithm,along with a dose of humility, might help generative AI mitigate one of its persistent problems: confident but inaccurate answers.
Why it matters: AIerrors are especially risky if people overly rely on chatbots and other tools for medical advice, legal precedents or other high-stakes information.
An intense heat wave that's striking the Midwest to the Northeast has seen multiple new maximum temperature records set or tied this week, with more to come.
The big picture: Officials in several states have activated emergency operations and opened cooling centers in response to the lingering heat dome that had more than 106 million people under heat alerts on Friday morning.
The U.S. is far from the only country seeing record heat, flash flooding and wildfires, among other extreme weather events. In fact, few places have been untouched recently.
Why it matters: Amid record warm global temperatures that have stretched on for at least a year, climate change-related extremes have affected hundreds of millions of people, with all-time heat records falling in parts of Europe, Africa and Asia.
The big picture: The declaration means federal funding will be available to people impacted by the South Fork and Salt fires that were still burning uncontained on Thursday, including those from the Mescalero Apache Tribe.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration in response to Tropical Storm Alberto, which was expected to continue lashing southern parts of the state with heavy rains and coastal flooding through Thursday.
The big picture: The formation ofthe first named storm over the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday comes as forecasters predict an aggressive Atlantic hurricane season.
NASA's Voyager 1 is back "conducting normal science operations" for the first time since a technical glitch some seven months ago sidelined the spacecraft, space agency officials announced.
Why it matters: The spacecraft that launched in 1977 has collected key scientific data, and at more than 15 billion miles from Earth it's the farthest human-made object in space.
Editor's note: Read the latest on New Mexico's extreme weather here.
Two growing wildfires near a popular New Mexico resort town and historic Native American reservation killed at least two people and destroyed more than 1,400 structures as officials rushed to evacuate thousands of people on Tuesday.
The big picture: Fresh mandatory evacuation orders were issued on Wednesday in Lincoln County, N.M., including for Ruidoso, a mountain hamlet that's a hub for ski resorts and hiking trails, due to what the National Weather Service described as "life-threatening burn scar flash flooding" in the village of nearly 7,700 residents.
