We've only known that sprites exist for marginally longer, as they were first photographed in 1989. Red sprites are electrical discharges similar to lightning, but they do not come towards the ground; ...

Astronaut Nichole Ayersaboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently captured a breathtaking view of a rare ...

Atmospheric rivers are massive plumes of moisture carried across the sky that can dump heavy rains or snow over land. Here’s ...

Learn how atmospheric rivers form, why they cause mega-storms and flooding, and what new science reveals about their growing ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Colorful sprites, or transient luminous events, flash above clouds in a video taken by NASA ...

Scientists are increasingly blunt about a climate-driven shift that could upend daily life for millions of people: extreme ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The constant changes in weather and increasing heat could be affecting television signals. An unpredictable phenomenon called tropospheric ducting could cause the signal issues ...

California is in the midst of a strong atmospheric river that's caused flooding, evacuations, road closures, and mention of it is all over the news and social media. And this comes on the heel of two ...

Spaceweather.com referred to the sundogs Skillern spotted as "sub-sundogs" due to their position below the Sun. "The key to this atmospheric optics phenomenon is the subsun—a dazzling reflection of ...

Cloud enthusiasts have a new tool to investigate striking formations in the skies above the Red Planet. A browsable database of 20-years-worth of images of clouds and storms, created by the German ...

Solar eclipses offer unique natural experiments for investigating transient atmospheric phenomena caused by the temporary obscuration of the Sun. These events induce rapid changes in radiative forcing ...