Wispy, featherlike clouds off the coast of Chile appear to cover the Pacific Ocean in white fur in a newly released satellite photo. The natural-color image, taken May 21 by NASA's Aqua satellite ...

A rover got a new view of some peculiar extraterrestrial clouds, flecked in rainbow colors and moving across the Martian sky.. Curiosity, a set of NASA's robotic "eyes" on the Red Planet, recorded ...

Wordsworth might have wandered lonely as a cloud, but photographers with excellent photos of clouds were in good company this week. Reader photo pick of the week: Clouds Skip to main content ...

The cloud in the middle with the forked end on the left was also pretty colorful a few minutes before I took this shot. At the upper right of the photo you can see just a hint of color, too ...

They occur when the sun's rays interact with ice crystals or water droplets in the high-altitude clouds. That causes the light to diffract and scatter into a spectrum of the colors of the rainbow.

Every color tells a story. Green is never just green, nor is blue ever just blue. It’s the flash of sunlight on an alpine lake or the underside of a cloud on a spring morning. It’s a snapshot ...