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 ...

The air around and above us always has some water vapor and some particles in it. The particles could be dust or salt or even ...

Is your weather app predicting clouds? No need to pull out that umbrella just yet. Not all cloudy days are the same, or, not all clouds are the same to be exact. There are a number of distinguishing ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Every dark cloud has a silver lining. At any given time, about 67 ...

Marine bacteria carried by warm and moisture-laden atmospheric rivers contribute to the formation of ice clouds at unexpectedly high temperatures in high-latitude regions, research from Japan suggests ...

On October 3, 2025, in Surfside Beach, South Carolina, USA, @catsunrisechick shared a video showing the early formation of a funnel cloud. In the video, the author is driving along a residential ...

A rare NASA satellite image shows 10 sharply defined “dark voids” above Heard Island, a volcanic peak in the southern Indian Ocean. Formed by von Kármán vortices bent nearly 90 degrees by fierce ...

AIM studied the formation of polar mesospheric clouds, which sit over the North and South poles and can only be seen at twilight. It came into operation back in 2007. NASA has announced it’s ending ...

A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James ...