Imagine climbing a mountain before sunrise and reaching a viewpoint where the landscape below has completely disappeared. Instead of valleys, forests and towns, you see a vast white blanket stretching ...

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 ...

NASA wants you to take pictures of clouds – here’s why - The space agency is launching a citizen scientist challenge this ...

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 ...

A team using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object—a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud that is considered a "relic" or remnant of early galaxy ...

The initiation of rain in clouds without ice remains one of the largest unsolved mysteries in atmospheric science. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Clouds are one of the fundamentals of how weather works across the world. From shelf clouds to funnel clouds, each is unique and has scientific explanations as to how it is formed and ...

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 ...

Ever look up, see a certain kind of cloud, and just know rain’s coming later? That instinct is real science and on this week’s First Alert Forecast Files, we’re breaking down the clouds you see most ...