Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

A University of Hawaii at Mānoa study on the freezing of water droplets suspended in air sheds light on a key process in ...

While both can produce anything from snow and rain to thunderstorms, one of them also helps hurricanes generate their ...

This is a cloud layer, and she says it exhibits very similar temperature, atmospheric pressure, and other environmental factors we're experiencing right here on Earth's surface. However ...

While jet streams are air patterns, the Gulf Stream is an ocean pattern that also has an impact on weather.

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow tracts of the Earth’s atmosphere that gather moisture from the tropics near the equator and sweep it toward the poles. According to the National Oceanic ...

An atmospheric river is slamming portions of California, with multiple inches of rain expected to drench the area until the storm runs out of moisture Wednesday morning, forecasters say.

Understanding Earth’s Core Earth's core is the heart of our planet; it's a fiery furnace where temperatures soar higher than ...

The West Pacific pattern correlates with high pressure, increased temperature, decreased precipitation, and higher burned ...

The polar dance that caused snow to fall across the South in January has been studied for decades, but scientists still hope ...

High pressure and the polar vortex A massive ... a boundary between the two lowest layers of Earth’s atmosphere -- the stratosphere and the troposphere, where nearly all weather occurs.