Have you ever looked up at the clouds in the sky and wondered how they form? It's not magic! Trump issues order imposing new ...

A new study shows that natural dust particles swirling in from faraway deserts can trigger freezing of clouds in Earth's ...

If you've ever looked up at the clouds and wondered where they came from, you're not alone. Atmospheric researcher Lubna Dada is fascinated by the mystery of how clouds form and what role they ...

Once clouds form, precipitation can develop through additional growth of droplets or crystals in moist air, by collision and coalescence of smaller existing droplets into larger ones, and most ...

They look dramatic (and let’s be honest, a little scary), but shelf clouds don’t mean tornadoes are coming. That’s a wall cloud you’re thinking of; different cloud, different setup.

Pyrocumulus clouds Fire clouds are known as pyrocumulus. In Latin, pyro means “fire” and cumulus means “pile” or “heap.” They form over heat sources due to the intense, upward vertical ...

Cirrus clouds are made up completely of ice crystals, which provides their white color and form in a wide range of shapes and sizes. These clouds are typically found at very high altitudes around ...

The Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets (CLOUD) experiment at CERN, Geneva uses an ultraclean chamber facility to study how gases form new particles, and grow to affect cloud formation.