Mars volcano twice as big as Earth's tallest one seen poking through clouds in first-of-its-kind image ...

An invisible molecular cloud that could shed light on how stars and planets form has been detected surprisingly close to Earth. Named Eos after the Greek goddess of the dawn, the cloud of gas ...

An invisible molecular cloud that could shed light on how stars and planets form has been detected surprisingly close to Earth.

Scientists have sussed out a new source for the seeds of clouds. When the stratospheric layer of Earth’s atmosphere dips a toe into the underlying troposphere, the resulting chemical mixture ...

This texture is formed by closed-cell convection when the warmer air rises in the center of smaller cloud pockets. As on Earth, this warmer air forms the clouds, but on Mars the rising air ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The sun’s warming rays met less resistance in 2023, as Earth experienced a record low in cloud cover. Planetary albedo is how much sunlight is reflected into space by ...

A NASA satellite recently spotted a series of bizarre "fallstreak holes" in clouds above Florida. The circular cloud gaps have been previously (and incorrectly) linked to paranormal phenomena.

ESA's EarthCARE mission has completed its important "Launch and Early Orbit Phase" and is ready to begin the commissioning of its four scientific instruments. The data they gather will improve our ...

Mysterious clouds discovered on Venus are not only helping scientists learn more about Earth's closest planetary neighbor, they also serve as a cautionary tale for one proposed method of combating ...

PARIS - Will clouds help cool or warm our world in the years ahead? A satellite named EarthCARE will soon blast off on a mission to find out, aiming to investigate what role clouds could play in ...

Alexandria Johnson does hard science on the most nebulous of subjects: clouds. As an atmospheric scientist and assistant professor of practice in Purdue University’s College of Science, she studies ...