What has been observed may look like flying saucers but they are actually lenticular clouds, also referred to by some as pancake or UFO clouds. At their most spectacular around sunrise or sunset ...

Usually, clouds trap some of this heat and send it back to the ground. But as the climate warms, there are fewer low clouds in some areas, which means less heat is returned to the surface.

These flares interact with molecular clouds—gas clouds where stars form—in our galaxy's center through the process of fluorescence. As the X-ray light travels, it illuminates slices of the ...

Floating high above us, it can be easy to give clouds no more than a second glance. But these vast formations of water vapour and ice particles are as varied as the landscapes they appear in. There ...

A multitude of swirling clouds in Jupiter’s dynamic North North Temperate Belt is captured in this image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Credit: Enhanced image by Gerald Eichstädt and Sean Doran (CC ...

Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice ...

This is the spectacular moment a pilot's halo rainbow appears on the clouds below an aircraft. Footage shows the circular rainbow surrounding the plane's shadow, illuminating the sky in Phrae ...

Following the sweeping path of a cold wave through the Arctic, the skies were alight with rare polar stratospheric clouds, which presented a rainbow-like show throughout the sky. Images of the ...