Many times, it is easy to trace a flight’s path in the sky, thanks to the wispy white lines that a plane leaves in its route, ...

Temperatures start out cooler in the 30s and 40s Wednesday morning. By Wednesday afternoon, cooler air is warmed by the ...

Cloud Composition Clouds are a fascinating part of our sky, made up of countless tiny water droplets or ice crystals. When these droplets or crystals cluster together, they become large enough to be ...

By collecting samples after climbing a high peak and firing rockets with special traps into the upper atmosphere, scientists ...

As a cloud forms, it creates updrafts that lift water‑laden air to high altitudes that are cold enough to turn the water to ice. The ice ... and assemble into a crystal structure.

In new photos of this planet parade, the wispy glow of our own Milky Way galaxy is accompanied by Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars as they make their way through the night sky.

Regular Martian clouds are composed of water ice, but researchers believe that ... cause the carbon dioxide to condense into colorful, wispy clouds. Some plumes descend to 50 kilometers before ...

Puffy to wispy, barely there or dark and menacing, clouds come in many shapes and sizes. Each tells a story about what’s going on in the atmosphere.