If you've looked up over Houston lately and noticed bright rainbow-like patches near the sun, fish-scale patterns rippling across the sky, or even what appear to be holes punched clean through cloud ...

A recent cold front in Florida created a rare weather phenomenon known as fallstreak holes or hole punch clouds. These circular divots appear in high-altitude clouds made of super-cooled water ...

Planes create hot exhaust that contains a lot of moisture. This is from the burning of jet fuel. When that exhaust exits the plane, it enters a much colder environment in the upper-level portions of ...

Many gorgeous cloud-filled sunrise and sunset photos have come into our newsroom over the last several weeks, and those pretty clouds can actually help you predict upcoming weather at your home. With ...

In 2004, astronomers spotted a planet-like object orbiting Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. With further observations, however, it started to look more like a dust cloud—a ...

Tuesday brought us clouds and sun and a milder 60 degrees! A humidity surge will move in late Tuesday night and Wednesday bringing low, grey clouds and fog. Some fog may be dense, especially near the ...

Generative AI is poised to reshape the supply of premium screen content, with VP of Chinese online media giant Tencent and CEO of Tencent Video Sun Zhonghuai forecasting that as much as a third of ...

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 ...

Contrails form when hot exhaust gas from an aircraft’s engine mixes with the cold air at an altitude of about 10 kilometres. In dry air, most contrails dissipate quickly. In cold, humid air, however, ...

When animator Stefan Gruber was eight, they saw a dog run across a wall, not in real life, but in Jules Engel’s hand-drawn short “Accident,” projected during a Pioneer Square art walk. That was the ...