Cirrus and cirrocumulus clouds are needed for fallstreak clouds to form and those are more common in Florida during winter ...

Contrails form when hot, moist jet exhaust condenses and freezes into ice crystals upon entering the cold upper atmosphere.

Many stars die spectacularly when they explode as supernovae. During these violent explosions, they leave behind thick, ...

Hubble’s latest view of N159 captures newborn stars igniting, glowing, and blasting bubbles into a vast cosmic nursery.

Scientists are discovering that clumping clouds supercharge storms in surprising ways — driving heavy, deadly rainfall and ...

Brian Cox and Robin Ince cut through the haze of cloud science.

High above the familiar cotton wool of weather systems, a stranger kind of cloud is quietly rewriting what we think we know ...

An astronaut on the ISS photographed a "lunar halo" over the Indian Ocean, revealing ice and rare optical phenomena from ...

A viral video from Jamtland, Sweden, captures a breathtaking 22-degree Sun halo with vivid sun dogs and rainbow arcs.

Researchers at the Institute for Meteorology at Leipzig University have, for the first time, determined the climatic impact of contrails that form within natural cirrus clouds. Contrails account for ...

Cirrus has launched "Cirrus Next," a new aircraft trade-in and upgrade program designed to simplify the purchasing process for buyers. The program accepts trade-ins for late model SR Series and all ...