The Electric Factory Above Our Heads Thunderstorms often begin to develop early in the day when the sun heats the air near ...

Researchers at the Institute for Meteorology at Leipzig University have, for the first time, determined the climatic impact of contrails that form within natural cirrus clouds. Contrails account for ...

I received a handful of emails on Tuesday morning about towering, disk-shaped clouds popping up over the Northern New England mountains, looking like alien spaceships ready to join in on our ...

HOUSTON — As severe thunderstorms pushed across Southeast Texas on Monday — including a visually confirmed tornado near Willowbrook and Jersey Village at 1:38 p.m. — KHOU 11 viewers grabbed their ...

Knut von Salzen receives funding from the University of Washington’s Marine Cloud Brightening Research Program, which is funded by a consortium of individual and foundation donors. He is affiliated ...

These are some of my favorite clouds to see, they’re called hole-punch or fallstreak clouds. And believe it or not, they didn’t exist before the invention of propeller airplanes. These clouds are ...

Long-lived contrails form predominantly not in cloud-free skies, but within already existing ice clouds. This is the conclusion reached by a team of scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich, the ...

Rare noctilucent clouds were spotted in south-central Pennsylvania on Thursday morning. Video above: Timelapse of noctilucent clouds from WGAL York skycamWGAL News 8 Skycams captured the noctilucent ...

Jose Fabian is a web producer for CBS Bay Area where he reports on local crime, politics and breaking news. He studied political science and journalism at Sacramento State and was born and raised in ...

Why it's so special: Stars in the Milky Way galaxy are born in huge molecular clouds. The most massive is Sagittarius B2, which is just a few hundred light-years from our the galaxy's central black ...