If an atmosphere is gaseous, it doesn't mean it's featureless and well mixed. In fact, Jupiter's atmosphere has structures scientists are still learning about.

The largest hail tends to form in “supercell” thunderstorms and seems to be becoming more common as climate change continues ...

Using the joint U.S.-Taiwanese COSMIC-2 satellite network, as well as 37 ground-based radars called ionosodes, the team ...

Evaporation, condensation, precipitation on my mind. This is the (methane?!) cycle, and it happens all the time! 🎶 Webb provided evidence for cloud convection on Saturn’s moon Titan, the only other ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, have, for the first time, found evidence for cloud ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope in Hawaii have observed something remarkable on ...

The images are the first to capture the process of cloud convection on Titan, rather than the 'before' and 'after.' ...

Sporadic E layers lit up during a solar storm, moving from poles to equator—surprising researchers and revealing potential ...

Titan is a strange world, at -300 degrees Fahrenheit, and shrouded in a jaundiced smog. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is ...

An atmospheric scientist explains how hail forms and what to do if you’re suddenly being pelted by giant ice chunks falling from the sky.

On Titan, clouds of methane unleash a cold, oily rain—very different from the water-based downpours we see on Earth. For the ...

Scientists Find a Human 'Fingerprint' in the Upper Troposphere's Increasing ... drive to reduce levels in the atmosphere of chemicals that destroy Earth's ozone layer, confirming the success ...