Getting inside a sturdy structure or at least an automobile is the best move when thunder roars, but just not being in water or being the tallest object around is a good start.

To understand how clouds get their shape, it helps to understand the basics of how they form. When air rises and cools, the water vapor it holds condenses into tiny water droplets or ice crystals. If ...

This video shows cumulonimbus clouds blanketing sky in Brooklyn. RESTRICTIONS AND USAGE TERMS: Please credit “Howard Weiss/@setox via Spectee”.

A 2015 satellite photo captured a series of stunning "von Kármán vortices" swirling off Madeira and the Canary Islands. The ...

A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

NASA ’s longest-running Mars mission has sent back an unprecedented side view of a massive volcano rising above the Red Planet, just before dawn. On May 2, as sunlight crept over the Martian ...

India has granted a key license to Elon Musk's Starlink, bringing the satellite provider a step closer to launching its commercial internet services in the country, a top Indian government ...

Google Cloud is a popular cloud hosting service. Because it provides hosting for a variety of other services, websites, and apps, a GCP outage could cause major ripple effects across the digital ...

Satellite data indicates recent Arctic peatland expansion with warming. Communications Earth & Environment, 2025; 6 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02375-1 ...

The world's cloud cover has been shrinking significantly and may help explain the extraordinary heat of the last two years, new research led by NASA found. The research, published this month ...