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 ...

This phenomenon is called cloud iridescence. This occurs when sunlight shines through water droplets or ice crystals that make up the cloud in such a way that light scatters and reflects the ...

What caused these beautiful, iridescent clouds in Sweden? And what makes them so special and rare? Harry Enten runs the numbers on competitive race for House seat in Florida Dodgers Gave Tigers ...

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 ...

Rainbow clouds occur because of something known as cloud iridescence, explains SciJinks, a website of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). "Iridescent clouds happen ...

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 ...

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 ...

"We called them 'rainbow clouds' but we understand they are also called "iridescent clouds with rainbow colors," he said. "We had a storm front coming our way from the west and this is what we saw ...

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 ...