The formation of ice in the atmosphere is a fundamental process that underpins both cloud dynamics and precipitation. Ice nucleation, the initial step in ice formation, occurs when supercooled water ...

The first deployment of one of NASA’s most ambitious research studies of Earth’s atmosphere will take place this July and August. The Atmospheric Tomography mission will take off aboard the agency’s ...

Communities up and down the West Coast of the United States can expect atmospheric rivers to evolve as the climate warms. But residents in Southern California will see much different changes than ...

The small traces of gas that form the atmosphere of our moon may have come from meteorites hitting its pockmarked surface. The exact origins of the moon's extremely thin atmosphere—known as an ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface, billions of years ago. Today, ...

The weather forecast for the giant, super-hot Jupiter-size planet WASP-79b is steamy humidity, scattered clouds, iron rain, and yellow skies. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope teamed up with the Magellan ...

After widespread power outages left at least 60 million people without electricity across three European countries on Monday, preliminary reports suggested the blackouts could have been the result of ...