Clouds Are Mostly Made of Water When you gaze up at the sky and see clouds drifting by, it might surprise you to learn that ...

Scientists are closely studying whether climate change is altering cloud formation processes and creating new or rarely seen ...

they concluded that the numerous bodies within the inner Oort cloud form a spiral structure that stretches about 15,000 au in length and is nearly perpendicular to the Galactic plane. The researchers ...

Stars are born in dense clouds of gas and dust, but new evidence suggests that conditions in the early universe may have shaped their formation in surprising ways. In a recent study, observations of ...

Molecular clouds in the Small Magellanic Cloud (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tokuda et al., ESA/Herschel)“We sought to understand the formation and evolution of stellar nurseries — molecular clouds ...

In this version of Weather Impact 101, we talk about different types of clouds that we see here in Central Texas, how they form and when we are most likely to see them. To kick things off with the ...

where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby star. Also called molecular clouds, these regions of space can be massive, spanning hundreds of light-years and forming thousands of ...

Mars simply doesn't have enough water vapor at the highest altitudes necessary for those clouds to form and reflect sunlight after sundown, said Mark Lemmon, an atmospheric scientist with the ...