Clouds of dust swirled around the Santa Fe Dam in Irwindale as a massive helicopter hovered over a tank of wildfire retardant, dropped a long snorkel from its belly and sucked up 3,000 gallons of ...

Fallstreak holes, also called cavum, sometimes occur when airplanes fly through certain clouds high in the atmosphere.

An outburst of shining tendrils signals the start of viewing season for these high-flying clouds formed by space dust. Noctilucent, or night-shining, clouds seem to hover over Nykøbing Mors ...

Since the late 1800s, observers have searched the polar skies for elusive, high-flying clouds that shine in the darkness. These polar mesospheric clouds, or PMCs, are wispy swarms of ice crystals ...

These strange high-flying clouds at the edge of space — beguiling to scientists just two decades ago — are easy to observe from the station's orbit about 250 miles above Earth. You May Also Like ...

A NASA-funded study called Super Soaker is giving scientists insight into how night-shining clouds form in the upper atmosphere, and how increasing space traffic may affect the phenomenon.

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There were numerous clouds in the sky that looked like a stack of pancakes or flying saucers. These are called lenticular clouds. Lenticular clouds generally form over mountains in a stable ...

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