Pyrocumulonimbus clouds form under specific conditions when intense heat from a fire causes air to rise rapidly within the smoke plume. This process involves: Heat Generation: The flames produce ...

Cirrus and cirrocumulus clouds are needed for fallstreak clouds to form and those are more common in Florida during winter months.

A storm is hitting Michigan with some light ice, but Indiana should stay just mainly cloudy with a spotty shower. Expect more ...

Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a ...

Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a ...

Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

The U.S. has a new lightning champion. Oklahoma has dethroned Florida to become the nation's lightning capital, according to ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare starless galaxy-like cloud known as a RELHIC, providing the strongest evidence yet for a cornerstone prediction of the Lambda CDM model: that many small dark matter ...