When you look at your weather forecast app, you might take for granted the complexity that lies beneath the simple icon of a ...

Plants, plankton and sea spray all release elements that help the atmospheric blankets form Max G. Levy The view from a research aircraft that scientists use to collect data from high in Earth’s ...

When the sun is low, and the sky is soaked with haze and blanketed with clouds, look for slabs of light coming in through the cracks. Meteorologists call these “crepuscular rays”—or, more colloquially ...