The seemingly endless Santa Ana winds will be replaced by cloudy skies and drizzle Thursday across San Diego County, but the moisture will do nothing to tamp down the threat of wildfires, the ...

Usually, clouds trap some of this heat and send it back to the ground. But as the climate warms, there are fewer low clouds in some areas, which means less heat is returned to the surface.

These flares interact with molecular clouds—gas clouds where stars form—in our galaxy's center through the process of fluorescence. As the X-ray light travels, it illuminates slices of the ...

There are three main types of high-level clouds: cirrus, cirrostratus and cirrocumulus, often abbreviated to Ci, Cs and Cc respectively. Cirrus clouds are often described as delicate, transparent ...

A multitude of swirling clouds in Jupiter’s dynamic North North Temperate Belt is captured in this image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Credit: Enhanced image by Gerald Eichstädt and Sean Doran (CC ...

Taipei, Taiwan – Five years ago, Jane Meng travelled from her home in Shanghai to Hong Kong to get herself something special for her birthday. The 31-year-old wealthy owner of an import-export ...

We can’t forget about the atmosphere either — we have a couple dust-devil surveys to look for dust lifting, but the real star of the show (at least for me) is the cloud imaging. While we’re just into ...