A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

The Silent Guardians of Our Atmosphere Clouds are more than just fluffy cotton balls floating in the sky. They serve as the ...

Even more interesting, though, is that the planet appears to have floating metal clouds. Part of what makes WASP-121b so intriguing is its oblong shape. Beyond that, though, the planet is also ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: From thin and wispy to big and puffy, clouds cover about 70% of the planet at any given moment. But what if, in the next minute, poof, they all ...

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory.

High altitude cirrus clouds on a fine day in the Adirondacks. Photos by Katie Finch We talk about nature quite a bit at Audubon. But what is included in that broad category? Obviously plants and ...

Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.

Scientists have long debated the role of clouds in climate change, with some arguing that they would make temperatures warmer while others arguing they might help cool the atmosphere. This is ...