Although most hailstone growth takes place at temperatures between 14 and -22 degrees Fahrenheit (-10 and -30 degrees Celsius ...

When enough water droplets form and cluster together, a puffy cloud forms. But how do the water droplets get there?

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

All clouds form as a result of saturation – that’s when the air contains so much water vapor that it begins producing liquid or ice. Once you understand how certain clouds develop their shapes ...

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In the center of the Milky Way, the conditions are actually ideal for the formation of stars. Now there is a clue as to why so few are formed there.

An international research team from Germany, Brazil, Sweden, and China now showed that rainfall regularly induces bursts of nanoparticles that can grow to form cloud condensation nuclei. The ...

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, has revealed ejections from still-forming ...

An international study led by the University of Eastern Finland and the Finnish Meteorological Institute has demonstrated that the formation and properties of lower-atmosphere clouds are highly ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - In today’s episode of in the clouds, we take a look at how fronts form, move, and interact with each other. Fronts and other boundaries are essential in the field of ...

To celebrate Hubble's 35th anniversary, ESA/Hubble released a breathtaking new image of the star-forming region NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. This cosmic nursery, packed with thousands of ...