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 ...

This 2023 astronaut photo shows a pair of perfectly aligned "wave clouds" rippling above the Crozet Islands in the Southern Ocean. The unusual patterns are the result of changes in temperature ...

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 ...

David Attenborough’s new film shines a light on threats to the ocean, ... indiscriminately catching creatures in their path and churning up dense clouds of carbon-rich sediment.

Across the North Atlantic in winter, the ocean’s garden conceals a curious phenomenon. Stretching from the United States and Canada all the way to Europe, quadrillions of tiny creatures are ...