The study traced how the microplastics ended up at their final location and discovered that they could play a role in cloud formation. Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic that are no larger ...

MOLINE, Ill — Perhaps one of the strangest appearing things in the sky you'll ever witness, this unique cloud formation comes in different sizes and shapes. It is, however, usually caused by the ...

A Feb. 11 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes a photo of a circular, red cloud formation above a map of Turkey and northern Syria. "#HAARP cloud; then weeks later; massive ...

At the CERN laboratory in Switzerland, particle physicist Jasper Kirkby studies the link between aerosols, cosmic rays and cloud formation, using the data to inform climate models. “It’s ...

A rare cloud formation, that creates an optical illusion tricking viewers into thinking it looks like a UFO, has been seen in Turkey. The wave-like pattern is known as a lenticular cloud.

Check out this incredible and unusual cloud formation. These mammatus clouds were spotted in the skies above Forney, Texas. They might look soft and fluffy, but these sorts of clouds usually mean ...

The formation and its name were officially recognized in 2009, the NWS said, decades after the previous addition to the International Cloud Atlas of the World Meteorological Organization in 1951.