Puffy, wispy, white and gray, we’ve seen them all this spring. Clouds come in a variety of types, and each type comes with critical information about incoming weather patterns. If you’re a ...

All clouds are made up of basically the same thing: water droplets or ice crystals that float in the sky. Cloud types are classified by appearance and location in the sky.

Different types of clouds have different effects on a person’s viewing experience. When the moon completely covers the sun April 8, it will be the first total eclipse in North Texas since 1878.

Washington D.C. [USA] July 5 (ANI): The discovery of high altitude cloud formations was made possible in 1885 after the eruption of Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia increased the amount of water ...

Anderson and Samuelson estimate that this type of cloud system -- which they call subsidence-induced methane clouds, or SIMCs for short -- could develop between 98,000 to 164,000 feet (30 to 50 ...

The new high-altitude cloud layer has implications for landing on Mars as it suggests the upper layers of Mars’ atmosphere can be denser than previously thought.

These clouds are similar to high-atmosphere noctilucent clouds observed on Earth, which can form at similar altitude ranges to the martian clouds. However, the martian clouds are more unusual.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Maybe you know two kinds of clouds: pretty and ominous. Or maybe you know a few scientific terms: blanket stratus and puffy cumulus. Regardless, there are many different types of ...

A drop in the number of low-altitude clouds was behind unexplained warming that contributed to the world's hottest year on record, a new study suggests. The record-breaking heat of 2023, which saw ...

The cloud formation reaches a maximum altitude of 25 miles (40 kilometers) and spans 516 miles (830 km) horizontally. The event occurred close to the northern spring equinox, suggesting it is a ...