AP Top Science News at 12:59 p.m. EDT

UN, scientists warn that strong El Nino will add fuel to 'a planet already on fire'Human-caused climate change made Spanish, French fires much more likely, scientists calculateA discarded SpaceX rocket is on a high-speed collision course with the moonAncient mummy DNA provides scientific evidence that colonization brought smallpox to the AmericasPaxton lawsuit prompts end of federal endangered species protection for Texas lizardWildfires are more extreme in Europe and North America, but global burning is oddly decreasingFauci repeatedly invokes the Fifth Amendment in a contentious Senate committee hearingPrivate mission to rescue NASA's aging telescope runs into its own troubleThe future of the UK's renowned Lovell radio telescope is in question after a funding cutA 7.1 magnitude quake hit