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

Is it a flying elephant? A gingerbread man? When I was little, I used to search the clouds for amusing shapes as they drifted across the sky and imagine stories about their patterns. Now I'm a ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is considered a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It's actually visible to the naked eye ...

The air around and above us always has some water vapor and some particles in it. The particles could be dust or salt or even ...

Ever looked up at the clouds and wondered where they came from? That's exactly what atmospheric researcher Lubna Dada studies at the Paul Scherrer Institute. She is part of an international project ...

An interesting phenomenon unfolded Monday in the sky over Houston as nearly perfect rows of clouds were spotted. Video submitted to us by a subscriber showed the unmistakable appearance of what are ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

It's not uncommon for the human eye to pick out familiar-seeming shapes among clouds in the sky, nor for the human mind to experience, however briefly, the sensation that such a resemblance is more ...