Have you ever looked up at the sky and seen those white lines streaming out of an airplane and wondered what they were?

This hole-punch cloud appeared in the sky over Mobile, Alabama, in 2003. Scientists believe that airplanes create these formations by cooling air and creating ice as they travel through clouds ...

My wife hates flying. As in, she doesn't fly. And gets really grumpy when I have to fly. As she points out, usually there aren't many survivors in a plane crash. When you go down, you go down ...

HATFIELD, England, June 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Clouds may have a net warming or cooling effect on climate, depending on their thickness and altitude. Artificially formed clouds called contrails ...

Airplanes flying in Makassar sky as ‘tsunami’ clouds unfold . Thunderclouds that formed above a Makassar airport in South Sulawesi on the first day of 2019 delayed the landing of five ...

Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...

The mysterious “hole punch” clouds peppered the sky shortly after sunrise. November 23, 2019 A “fallstreak hole” punctures a cloud over Celebration, Fla., at 9:35 a.m. Friday.

To my eye, the clouds that airplane wings make on takeoff and landing look like some cool ass force field—like, ... These are a by-product of the lift forces which hold aircraft up in the sky.

In the right conditions, airplane contrails can linger in the sky as contrail cirrus -- ice clouds that can trap heat inside the atmosphere. Their climate impact has been largely neglected in ...

Airplanes passing through this cloud layer often bring those ice crystals. Once introduced, the water droplets quickly freeze, grow, and start to fall, leaving a hole behind.