The right mix of hot, humid, rising air can produce some of the most powerful weather phenomena on the planet.

Why do some clouds look like cotton balls while others look like flying saucers? The shapes of clouds reveal different things ...

Have you ever looked up at the clouds in the sky and wondered how they form? Understanding cloud formation is really important for studying weather patterns and making accurate forecasts. Those clouds ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

Have you ever looked up at the sky and noticed how clouds often form in distinct layers, with some huddled close to the ground while others seem to float high above? The stratification of clouds in ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Technically called “cumulonimbus flammagenitus,” pyrocumulonimbus clouds are a rare weather phenomenon caused by intense heat. These towering clouds form when extreme heat from a ...

Even a clear sky contains layers of wet and dry air, that is, layers with different humidities. You can’t see these layers unless the humidity is high enough for the moisture in the layer to condense ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from the University of Florida and elsewhere have performed infrared ...

Why Sagittarius B2 produces so many stars in comparison to the rest of the galactic center has remained an enduring mystery ...

SOME MORE WILDFIRE SMOKE RETURNING. MORE ON THAT IN A SECOND. EARLIER TODAY WERE SOME COOL SITES, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OMINOUS SITES IN SOME PARTS OF THE STATE, A FEW DIFFERENT FUNNEL CLOUDS SPOTTED, ...