Also known as "angel hair", because of the silky threads the spiders leave behind, “spider rain” is in fact a mass ballooning ...

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

A rapidly warming Arctic is driving long-lasting summer extremes, such as this month’s sweltering temperatures, new research ...

Man, it's a hot one in a lot of places around the US right now, thanks in part to the heat dome that has taken hold in the ...

Here’s why some people say they hear cracking and popping from an atmospheric event that shouldn’t be able to produce any sound.

Its color is actually caused by the effects of a 2,000 degree Fahrenheit (1,093 Celsius) atmosphere where rock-forming ...

Extreme humidity and triple-digit temperatures are affecting around 250 million people across the United States. Here's the ...

Using large loop antennas the ultra-low-frequency research group at the National Bureau of Standards has studied the upper atmosphere phenomena of geomagnetic micropulsations. Data taken at a number ...

A recurring atmospheric phenomenon that doesn't always reach North America is expected to dust South Carolina skies this week. The event is known as the Saharan Layer, a 2.5-mile-thick layer of ...

Dust clouds form as a result of atmospheric phenomenon known as Saharan Air Layer. Saharan dust clouds form from massive desert dust stirred by tropical waves. Dust plumes grow up to 4km thick ...

The Saharan Air Layer forms when massive quantities of desert dust are stirred up by tropical atmospheric waves along the desert's southern edge, ramping up around early June.Growing up to 4 ...