As a scholar researching clouds, I have spent much of my time trying to understand the economy of the sky. Not the weather reports showing scudding rainclouds, but the deeper logic of cloud movements, ...

We stare at clouds all the time, whether trying to figure out what they look like or if they're bringing rain. Yet most of us know very little about clouds, let alone how to identify them. The World ...

I'm weirdly into clouds. I'm not a meteorologist or a climate scientist. I don't even know that much about clouds. I just really like them. Whenever I'm outside or near a window, my eye is drawn up to ...

On a road trip from Phoenix to Washington D.C., you may notice the sky is falling — or at least the clouds are. We often admire the shapes and sizes of those overhead puffs, but the height of those ...

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Is your weather app predicting clouds? No need to pull out that umbrella just yet. Not all cloudy days are the same, or, not all clouds are the same to be exact. There are a number of distinguishing ...

Clouds of sand can condense, grow and disappear in some extraterrestrial atmospheres. A new look at old data shows that clouds made of hot silicate minerals are common in celestial objects known as ...

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TOKYO, JAPAN - AUGUST 14: Shafts of sunlight beam down from behind clouds on August 14, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) One misconception is that there are only four types of ...

In August, we posted a photograph of some odd, rare clouds known as Morning Glory clouds without providing an explanation for how they form. In response to reader interest, we followed up with ...