An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged the Earth's richest deposits of copper, ...

Gliders with engines do exist. They are called motor gliders and are essentially fixed-wing aircraft that can be flown with ...

Have you ever felt the air shift and suddenly wondered, “Is a storm brewing overhead?” You’re not alone. The sky has a ...

Puffy, wispy, white and gray, we’ve seen them all this spring. Clouds come in a variety of types, and each type comes with ...

To understand how clouds get their shape, it helps to understand the basics of how they form. When air rises and cools, the water vapor it holds condenses into tiny water droplets or ice crystals. If ...

Cumulus clouds form when the warmth from the ground rises (and there is enough moisture in the environment to create clouds). As the warm air rises, it gradually cools.

Cumulus: Detached, bright white, dense clouds and with sharp outlines that develop vertically in the form of rising mounds, domes or towers. The bulging upper parts often resemble a cauliflower.

Clouds that look like cartoon cotton balls or cauliflower are made up of tiny liquid water droplets and are called cumulus clouds. Often, these are fair-weather clouds that form when the Sun warms ...

A USGS website gave an estimate that a typical cumulus cloud may contain 1 billion cubic meters. If density is considered 0.5 grams of cloud droplets within that given volume, the mass is 500,000 ...

Clouds form because of moisture in the air, and their different shapes tell you what to expect. I’m a meteorologist, and I’ve been fascinated by weather since I was eight years old.

Puffy to wispy, barely there or dark and menacing, clouds come in many shapes and sizes. Each tells a story about what’s going on in the atmosphere.