Noctilucent clouds were once thought to be a fairly modern phenomenon. A team of researchers recently calculated that Earth ...

Earth from space This 2014 satellite photo shows a cloud of haze sitting in the Kashmir Valley in the Himalayas. The ethereal "lake" consists mainly of smog and other pollutants from nearby factories.

It relies on propelling a fine mist of salt particles high into the atmosphere to increase the albedo of clouds – the amount of sunlight they reflect back into space. This would then reduce ...

A SpaceX rocket that launched a planetary defense mission on Monday captured a breathtaking view of Earth shortly after reaching orbit.

worlds in our solar system and beyond! Scientists now think the Earth’s story began around 4.6 billion years ago in a disk-shaped cloud of dust and gas rotating around the early sun, made up of ...

Together, these measurements will help to better understand how clouds and aerosols reflect incoming solar energy back into space and how they trap thermal radiation emitted by the Earth.

The probe will help scientists understand how clouds and aerosols such as dust and smoke play a role in heating and cooling ...

A cloud on title is any document, claim, unreleased lien, or other encumbrance that might invalidate or impair a title to real property and/or make the title doubtful. A cloud indicates there is ...

Equipped with four state-of-the-art instruments—a cloud profiling radar, an atmospheric lidar, a broadband radiometer and a multispectral imager—EarthCARE (Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation ...

Some alien hunters and extraterrestrial enthusiasts will be disappointed to learn that the unidentified flying object they have seen is nothing more than a unique type of cloud shaped like a ...