I turned my camera towards Badger and took the first set of images and it confirmed they were noctilucent." The three-shot ...

We stare at clouds all the time, whether trying to figure out what they look like or if they're bringing rain. Yet most of us know very little about clouds, let alone how to identify them. The World ...

Have you ever wondered how a cloud stays in the sky? In a recent conversation with my friend and colleague Alan Sealls, the AMS President-Elect told me that he pondered this very question, and it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Michigan's changeable weather, residents get to see a lot of different cloud formations — fluffy cumulus, wispy cirrus and ...

Puffy, wispy, white and gray, we’ve seen them all this spring. Clouds come in a variety of types, and each type comes with critical information about incoming weather patterns. If you’re a local hiker ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. If you're in the northern hemisphere and it's been a clear ...

Gravity wave clouds form in wave-like patterns in sky, oftentimes resembling ripples in a body of water from a rock being thrown. These types of clouds are created from air in the atmosphere coming ...

The summer solstice occurs at 10:42 P.M. EDT, marking the official beginning of summer for those in the Northern Hemisphere. On this date, the Sun is located directly above the Tropic of Cancer at ...

Planes create hot exhaust that contains a lot of moisture. This is from the burning of jet fuel. When that exhaust exits the plane, it enters a much colder environment in the upper-level portions of ...

It was a partly sunny day, with no rain in sight. But a rare type of colorful cloud formation that resembles a rainbow ...