2014 Atlantic hurricane season begins

June 1 is the official start to the Atlantic hurricane season.

The moon, Jupiter and … a UFO?

Oh wait! It's the glow of a firefly.

Can you trust your ears?

Check out these audio illusions!

Identify 500 birds with new Birdsnap app

Take a picture of a bird and identify it. This free new iPhone app is an electronic field guide featuring 500 of the most common North American bird species.

Sun halo, Laredo

Angélica Guevara captured this sun halo on May 29 near Laredo, Texas.

Flying airplanes with mind control

Researchers demonstrate that brain-controlled flight is possible.

Two incredible and scary weather videos

A tornado and a lightning strike. Watch these two scary videos of dangerous weather from the U.S. Great Plains.

Diamond planets more common than astronomers thought?

Study suggests that extraterrestrial worlds can be extremely diverse in their chemical compositions, including many that are drastically different from our earthly experience.

An ancient battle: A 900-pound croc takes on a 58-foot snake

An ancient, 16-foot, 900-pound crocodile may have been overmatched by a monster snake that swam in the same rivers 60 million years ago.

Crowd-funded project aims to build world’s first simulated organism

It will be the world’s most detailed virtual life form — an accurate, open-source, digital version of a worm called C. elegans.