Photographers hoping to capture stunning "night-shining" clouds have been left frustrated this year. The fast-approaching solar maximum may be to blame. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Astronomers have uncovered a link between Neptune's shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, in which the waxing and waning of the Sun's entangled magnetic fields drives solar activity.

Neptune’s clouds have disappeared. Since the first detailed images of the planet were taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989, its cerulean disc has been criss-crossed by wispy white clouds, but its ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Every cloud is lined, not with silver, but with science — at least from cloud expert Alexandria Johnson’s point of view. Clouds are ubiquitous. They are one of the most notable ...

Neptune receives a tiny fraction of the sunlight that strikes Earth, yet somehow, that’s enough to transform the clouds of this faraway world. The main driver of cloud formation is generally the ...

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Plants, plankton and sea spray all release elements that help the atmospheric blankets form Max G. Levy The view from a research aircraft that scientists use to collect data from high in Earth’s ...