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The right mix of hot, humid, rising air can produce some of the most powerful weather phenomena on the planet.

The air around and above us always has some water vapor and some particles in it. The particles could be dust or salt or even ...

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere ...

The night sky can host a wide range of spectacular sights like the northern lights, meteor showers and comets, as well as phenomena like noctilucent clouds.You ...

Astronomers have struggled to explain why a long and thin cloud forms above Mars’s Arsia Mons volcano each year, until now ...

An optical phenomenon known as a sun dog was spotted in the sky over several Connecticut towns on Tuesday afternoon. These ...

Weather forecasting can often seem as arcane as gazing into a crystal ball, but the skill lies in analyzing current conditions, identifying weather patterns and applying climatology to produce a ...

Yet over the past 30 years evidence has emerged that condensation trails — or “contrails” — may present at least as much of a ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

Until now, scientists have struggled to reproduce this weather phenomenon in their models. View on euronews ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new simulation of the hydrological cycle on Jupiter, modeling how water vapor condenses ...