Imagine waking up one morning to find that Earth’s atmosphere has vanished—gone, as if erased by an invisible hand. Suddenly, ...

A major new study led by NASA has revealed something alarming: Earth’s cloud cover is shrinking, and this is making the ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare atmospheric phenomenon over the US and Mexico known as a "sprite" that's ...

Earth Day Special: Clouds and Beetles : From the Top We're celebrating Earth Day with performances that celebrate our natural world. Up first, a young oboist performs a piece inspired by Georgia O ...

The European Space Agency's orbiting Mars Express spacecraft found clouds that are between 50 and 62 miles above the red planet. The highest clouds on Earth top out at about 52 miles.

Clouds cover about 70% of the planet at any moment. But what if — poof — they all disappeared? Long story short, we'd have huge problems on our hands.

d ~ 102'912'000 km: day 40 of Earth's orbit. ... That's why cumulus clouds are lumpy on top - each bump is the result of one of the warm air plumes that helped build the cloud.

No matter what shape or size they are, clouds are essential to life on Earth. During the day they help protect us from the sun’s intense heat. At night they act as a blanket to keep us from ...

The highest clouds on Earth top out at about 52 miles (84 kilometers). You may like 12-mile-tall volcano on Mars punches through clouds | Space photo of the day for June 9, 2025; ...

One major stumbling block is the resolution of climate models, or how finely or coarsely they represent the Earth; to represent individual clouds, which can be the size of a minivan or the state ...

A 2023 astronaut photo captured a rare effect, known as sunglint, transforming the surface of one of Russia's deepest lakes into a sea of swirling clouds. The crater lake is sandwiched between a ...