A 2023 astronaut photo captured a rare effect, known as sunglint, transforming the surface of one of Russia's deepest lakes ...

The data reveals the density of ice, snow, and rain in the cloud, as well as the speed with which these particles are falling to Earth ... around the whole globe, not just at a handful of ground ...

Considering the globe as a whole, high clouds and cloud-free scenes result in warming of the Earth's atmosphere, as less energy escapes into space than arrives from the sun. For low clouds ...

These artificial clouds are produced by releasing chemical compounds from high-altitude probes, typically at elevations between 80 and 400 kilometers above the Earth’s surface.

The Floating Earth is a 10m (33ft) wide model of the globe and is now on display at Queen’s Valley. It's made up of NASA images of the earth taken from space and has been created by artist Luke ...

Recent examples of more extreme rainfall have become evident in more flooding scattered over the globe in the last years ... this discrepancy and found that clouds were the culprit.

More information: Jesse A. Miller et al, Earth's Mesosphere During Possible Encounters With Massive Interstellar Clouds 2 and ...

Low-level clouds, which form within 2 kilometres of the Earth's surface, reflect radiation, but don't trap as much heat. To assess how low cloud cover changed in 2023, the new study used data from ...

What attracted Globe editors to this image is the dominant sky, where a forceful movement toward the centre of the picture is created by two converging diagonals, representing banks of clouds.