Why do some clouds look like cotton balls while others look like flying saucers? The shapes of clouds reveal different things about changing weather patterns.

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 ...

Answer: Clouds form when sufficiently moist air is cooled to the dew point temperature of the air or below, so that either liquid water droplets form on cloud condensation nuclei, or in the case of ...

Venus has always been a mysterious planet, largely due to its extreme conditions. It’s a world where temperatures are high ...

The surface of Venus is a hellscape with temperatures hot enough to melt lead, but some regions of its atmosphere high over the surface remain cool enough to harbor ice and birth ghostly clouds. When ...

Water normally freezes at 32?, but sometimes this doesn’t happen. In this case, water with a temperature below freezing is called “supercooled”. This strange phenomenon occurs in clouds where ...

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

This week's question comes from Regina, who asks about one of the basic elements of our weather, "Why do clouds form?" Meteorologist Rob Shackelford: This might sound like a weird analogy, but I need ...