As a scholar researching clouds, I have spent much of my time trying to understand the economy of the sky. Not the weather ...

Scientists are discovering that clumping clouds supercharge storms in surprising ways — driving heavy, deadly rainfall and ...

ND As a scholar researching clouds, I have spent much of my time trying to understand the economy of the sky. Not ...

A new type of lidar is allowing physicists to study cloud tops at a resolution 100 to 1,000 times higher than before.

High above the familiar cotton wool of weather systems, a stranger kind of cloud is quietly rewriting what we think we know ...

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...

Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years from Earth.

A Christmas Tree-shaped star cluster inside NGC 2264 reveals active star formation 2,700 light-years from Earth.

A rotating column of air rose from the ground toward the sky, drawing the attention of residents in nearby areas ...

Look across the night sky and it is easy to think the universe is mostly stars, galaxies and the planets that orbit them. Yet ...

Most airplane contrails go unseen from space, yet they may drive much of aviation’s climate impact, according to new MIT ...

Acorn woodpeckers live in family groups and spend winter tending their stash and defending it from thieves. Come spring, they’ll shift to insects and oak flowers, but in winter, acorns fuel their ...