Clouds play a starring role in the background of our lives, so much so that it’s noteworthy when we get to gawk at the spectre of a crystal clear sky. Every cloud is worthy of a gaze to admire ...

Noctilucent clouds (NLCs), or polar mesospheric clouds, are breathtaking to see. And these are no ordinary clouds. They form in the highest part of our atmosphere, at an altitude of 80 kilometres.

The wispy thin clouds are just forming and have super-cooled water droplets or ice crystals of about the same size. The sun’s rays hit a few droplets at at time, creating a rainbow effect.

If density is considered 0.5 grams of cloud droplets within that given volume, the mass is 500,000 kilograms (1.1 million pounds or 551 tons). I arrived at that number by doing a simple math problem.

Keep your head up this weekend, Happy Clouds will be roaming around the sky in various locations of the city. As part of the Bentway's Playing in Public exhibit, smiley-face bubble sculptures will ...

The effect of clouds has been the biggest uncertainty in predictions about global warming. In this new study, researchers from the University of Exeter and the Laboratory of Dynamical Meteorology in ...