On a warm day in January of last year, Martin Heinritzi peered from a window of his research plane, spotting Australia’s ...

But in 2014, NASA’s Terra satellite captured a near-perfect circle of clouds hovering above the Pacific Ocean. Spotted a few thousand kilometers southwest of Hawaii, this unusual ring floated ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, 36, captured a transient luminous event above thunderstorm clouds on Thursday, July 3 “As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite ...

Wave clouds can also form above land but are more common over large bodies of water. (Image credit: George Rose via Getty Images) The wave cloud on the left of the image is formed by air passing ...

Cloud science Stratocumulus clouds above the north-western Pacific Ocean, about 460 miles east of northern Honshu, Japan. (Courtesy: Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center) For all ...

Bedrock Ocean has developed an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that runs for up to 12 hours off its lithium-ion batteries while mapping the floor using its sonar and magnetic sensors ...

Floating in orbit above Mars, NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captured a panorama of the Red Planet’s biggest volcanoes, Arsia Mons, peeking over a sea of clouds.