Thunderstorms above Oklahoma sculpted a seldom-seen spectacle in the sky Friday morning. The formation of a horseshoe vortex ...

Climate change is not only altering temperatures but also reshaping the skies above us. New cloud formations are emerging due ...

Asperitas clouds are a distinctive, but relatively rare cloud formation that takes the appearance of rippling waves.

When clouds form thick layers, we add the word “stratus,” or “layer,” to the name. Stratus can occur just above the ground, or a bit higher up – we call it altostratus then. It can occur ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights the Tarantula Nebula’s complex structure, featuring dense cosmic dust clouds and vibrant star-forming regions. This nebula, located 160,000 ...

Spring can be a particularly gloomy time of the year in parts of the United States, but this year has been a sunny standout ...

The shapes of these formations — and where in ... Noctilucent or “night-shining” clouds are rare phenomena that occur about 80 km above sea level (not far from the Karman line that separates ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

Known as Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, they form when a faster stream of air moves above rising air below. According to the Met Office website, Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds are "an extremely rare phenomenon".

What’s more, “hydrophilic” or water-loving polymers were abundant, suggesting the particles play a significant role in rapid cloud formation and thus climate systems. “If the issue of ‘p ...