Cloud

The different types of clouds: what they mean for weather

Clouds come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Each type can mean different weather conditions.

Scientists unravel mystery of 1,100-mile-long cloud forming above Martian volcanoes

It's similar to how these clouds form on Earth only on a massive scale.

Water from thin air: a look at how rain and precipitation forms

There are a lot of elements that come together to 'make it rain'. Both in nature and in the club.

Some Martian clouds are made of ground-up meteors

That's pretty metal.

Pollen clouds cover south-east USA causing allergy spikes

We're at the peak of allergy season.

Scientists found lollipop-shaped ice crystals in some clouds

Ice lollipops in clouds sounds just delightful.

'Impossible' clouds spotted on Titan - for the second time

Astronomers have made a puzzling observation which could have big implications for our understanding of Titan.

New NASA image shows first cloud on Pluto

Pluto really is crazy!

The Moon is shrouded by a dust cloud, and a mystery still stands

The Moon doesn’t have an atmosphere, but it is surrounded by a thick dust cloud; the dust constantly falls down to the lunar surface, but new dust constantly jumps to replenish it. The pattern of dust falling back to its home “in due time … will fill in craters,” says the University of Colorado, Boulder’s Mihaly […]

Why raindrops are basically sky pearls

At the center of every raindrop there is an impurity (dust, clay, etc) – basically all raindrops have something like that at its core, just like pearls do. So in a way, raindrops form just like pearls. Let’s look at this phenomenon in more detail. In one form or another, water is always present in […]