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

Lenticular clouds are those smooth, lens-shaped formations that look like stacked pancakes, or sometimes, a UFO hovering in ...

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

JWST's detection of phosphine on a brown dwarf, also known as a "failed star," could have repercussions for the claimed detection of the molecule on Venus.

Pedrógão Grande, a small municipality in central Portugal, faced a similar scenario in 2017. A huge plume of smoke from a ...

Venus has long been called a dry, hellish planet veiled in clouds of liquid acid. But new study of old spacecraft data tells ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is considered a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It's actually visible to the naked eye ...

Dracula orchids, also called monkey orchids, look like a face hidden in nature.

The northern lights may be visible in the night sky across 11 states on Tuesday, Oct. 7, according to forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

University of Bristol astrophysicists are helping shed new light on an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light years away where liquid water in the form of a ...

Antarctic sea ice changes affect clouds and oceans, making global warming stronger than earlier climate models predicted.

Previous research suggests that brown dwarfs should contain phosphine—which forms when phosphorus combines with ...