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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 ...

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

Lenticular clouds are those smooth, lens-shaped formations that look like stacked pancakes, or sometimes, a UFO hovering in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that ...

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere ...

Astronomers have struggled to explain why a long and thin cloud forms above Mars’s Arsia Mons volcano each year, until now ...

Weather forecasting can often seem as arcane as gazing into a crystal ball, but the skill lies in analyzing current conditions, identifying weather patterns and applying climatology to produce a ...

A new discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope has given scientists fresh insight into Venus and its potential to host life ...

The northern lights may be visible in the night sky across 11 states on Tuesday, Oct. 7, according to forecasts from the ...

Dracula orchids, also called monkey orchids, look like a face hidden in nature.

Plus: Why are hurricanes so powerful? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in ...