The claim: Photos appearing to show clouds behind the sun suggest it orbits the earth, isn't millions of miles away. Earth orbits the sun, a star located more than 90 million miles away at the ...

The sun is just starting to turn to its golden color and with it a portion of the dramatic clouds the sky. The children are silhouette against the sunshine glinting off of the water.

How does a cloud stay cool under direct sunlight—or seem to vanish in infrared? In nature, phenomena like white cumulus ...

That color has led to them being nicknamed "mother-of-pearl" clouds. While Mars' atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide, few of its clouds are at a high enough atmosphere and low enough temperature to ...