Sunday evening ended with a visual treat in the sky, and Monday morning continued the atmospheric spectacle! Cirrostratus clouds drifting over Metro Atlanta produced my favorite atmospheric optical ...

SEATTLE -- If you were up early Wednesday morning, you might have been treated to a rather brilliant show in the skies near the sun. Photos from around the region showed a rather bright halo around ...

SEATTLE -- It was a sun halo party over Seattle Wednesday morning and every kind of atmospheric event was invited. Dr. Angela Rowe with the University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences Department ...

Whether they’re idyllic floating cotton balls on an otherwise blue sky or ominous grey swirls that block the sun, clouds all begin as an invisible dot of water vapor. This elusive gas has been tricky ...

A partial 22° degree halo observed near the Woodlawn Lake area on Sunday, March 19. Photo sent in via KSAT Connect from Taylor Mcclelland. (KSAT) Ever so often, under the right sky conditions, an ...

The correlation between full moons and lunacy may be just folklore, but when winter temperatures turn frigid many eyes are turned skyward by another lunar phenomenon. "It was very, very bright this ...

An astronaut aboard theInternational Space Station (ISS) recently snapped a breathtaking photo of a lunar halo, a rare ...

Depending on its position, the Sun passes its light through combinations of these materials to cast glowing patterns of colors, often serving them as optical treats for earthlings and passengers in ...

JWST observations of Saturn's atmosphere revealed unprecedented details of its aurora and upper atmosphere, including previously unseen, complex structures. In the ionosphere (1100 km altitude), dark, ...