Clouds affect Earth's weather and climate in many ways. New research suggests that the presence of microplastic particles ...

Microplastics in the atmosphere may be altering weather and climate by facilitating ice formation in clouds. Penn State ...

Microplastics, the tiny pieces of plastic smaller than 5 millimetres have been spotted in nearly every nook and cranny of our ...

A new 'Cloud Atlas' from the German Aerospace Centre showcases 20 years of Martian atmospheric phenomena, enhancing our understanding of Mars' climate and weather patterns. Scientists from the German ...

Microplastics can act as ice nucleating particles, potentially altering cloud formation, precipitation, and even global ...

On an airplane, motions of the air on both small and large scales contribute to turbulence, which may result in a bumpy ...

Neptune's Disappearing Clouds Linked to the Solar Cycle ... Feb. 8, 2023 — Scientists have discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar System.

The surface of Venus is comparable to the bottom of Earth’s oceans with one major difference: Venus has the hottest planetary surface in the solar system. National Corporate funding for NOVA is ...

This hypothesis hinges on the basic science of how clouds form. Water vapor in the atmosphere can’t form cloud ... Then, in ...

A peculiar "pet cloud" took center stage in a recent satellite photo of New Zealand ... like a mountain range, forcing water vapor to condense into vertical layers, according to the National ...

The scattering of light through clouds has inspired a research team led by physicists at Glasgow University to discover a new way of controlling and guiding ... sunlight is scattered through the ...