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

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 ...

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, ...

NOAA satellites captured actinoform clouds over the eastern Pacific Ocean on June 3, 2021. These collections of shallow clouds, organized in a distinctive radial pattern, often appear as leaf-like or ...

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 ...

Heat from the recent wildfires raging in northern Minnesota is so intense, that under the right circumstances, they can actually create storms in the atmosphere. It's not uncommon to see cumulus ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In a groundbreaking observation, NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter captured an extraordinary image of a towering formation breaking through the Martian morning clouds. This formation, believed to be the ...