A Sydney photographer has captured a rarely-observed rainbow cloud phenomenon called "iridescent clouds". Maria Milford was driving to the Gold Coast when she spotted the iridescent clouds over the ...

A stunning cloud iridescence created a bright silhouette above the mountains in the Philippines. Footage shows the optical ...

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact." What do clouds on Mars look like? Well, a new video stitched together from ...

For the fourth year in a row, NASA's Curiosity rover has photographed iridescent clouds drifting across the Martian sky. The clouds appear in the same place, at the same time of year. On January ...

A rare cloud phenomenon has been caught on camera in NSW. A 23-year-old woman has been arrested at the scene of an alleged road rage incident where a car appeared to be used as a battering ram. A team ...

It was a rare instance of cloud iridescence, which is usually at its most visually appealing when occurring in tandem with strong thunderstorms. The storm in question Tuesday night formed over the ...

From the ground, people have often referred to them as "night-shining clouds," because their altitude allows them to keep reflecting sunlight well after sunset. In the summer, these iridescent ...

At summertime, these iridescent clouds shimmer at dusk and dawn near Earth's North and South Poles. Astronaut Matthew Dominick shared a spectacular photo he took on the Fourth of July from the ...

Experts say they were mainly lenticular clouds and gravity waves, which sometimes form during the late fall in Southern California, and there were also some iridescent cirrus clouds. Such clouds ...

Other images show the clouds as white plumes falling through the atmosphere, before evaporating about 31 miles above Mars. Did you know that Mars has *iridescent* clouds? Spotted by the ...

rainbow clouds require much more specific conditions described as cloud iridescence. " It usually happens in altocumulus, cirrocumulus, lenticular and cirrus clouds. Iridescent clouds happen becau ...

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact," Mark Lemmon, an atmospheric scientist at the Space Science Institute in ...