There are 10 primary types of clouds on Earth. Here you can learn about what they're made of, how they form and how they are classified.

Goodbye, sun; Goodbye, clouds Low-level cumulus clouds — which tend to top out at altitudes around 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) — were strongly affected by the degree of solar obscuration.

A sparkling cloudscape is revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope, which used its instruments to capture multiple wavelengths when pointed at a dwarf galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.

A team of astronomers has discovered something extraordinary about the bright clouds that periodically show up in Neptune's upper atmosphere — they appear to be linked to the Sun's 11-year cycle of ...

What it is: The Large Magellanic Cloud, the largest of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies Where it is: 160,000 light-years away, in the constellations Dorado and Mensa When it was shared: May 12, 2025 ...

The researchers have used the cloud atlas to create global cloud maps and to study variation between seasons and locations, and they hope to gather more data to add to it in future, Tirsch said ...