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 ...

(WKBW-TV) BUFFALO, NY — Every day our sky is filled with a variety of clouds. Each one tells a different story about the condition of the atmosphere. But did you know there’s a classification system ...

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this oblique photograph of polar mesospheric clouds during one of the 16 sunsets visible from the station each day. Polar mesospheric clouds, ...

Question: What is the difference between a cloud higher or lower in the sky? What are stratus and cirrus clouds? — Jayden Wilkins Answer: Stratus clouds are smooth clouds that usually occur in the ...

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

While there aren’t any tasty flying snacks on offer, scientists are curious about a rare and poorly understood kind of cloud which forms high in the atmosphere over the north and south poles only ...

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 ...

Mars is a planet of extremes—towering volcanoes, vast canyons, and colossal dust storms that can wrap the planet in a reddish haze for weeks. But high above its rusty terrain, something far more ...

The surface of Venus is a hellscape with temperatures hot enough to melt lead, but some regions of its atmosphere high over the surface remain cool enough to harbor ice and birth ghostly clouds. When ...