Slushy hailstones of ammonia and water were part of a bizarre theory to explain the planet's poorly mixed atmosphere. These mushballs seem to be real, say UC Berkeley scientists.

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

Comment AI's appetite for power is exploding. Hyperscalers have only just begun to adopt Nvidia's 120 kW-per-rack systems, ...

We haven’t figured out exactly what gives them their shape, determines altitude – or makes them rain when they do. But ...

Cumulus clouds are a particular danger for rockets as a nearby launch ... meaning more are needed for full global coverage ...

Weather prevented a rocket carrying the first batch of Amazon satellites designed to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink from ...

To address these issues, we propose ELMF-Net, an efficient and accurate semantic segmentation model for large-scale 3-D point clouds. First, we introduce a local feature learning method that does not ...

A colossal and unusually symmetric cloud ring was captured by NASA’s Terra satellite hovering alone in the central Pacific ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

Tropical marine low clouds play a crucial role in regulating Earth's climate. However, whether they mitigate or exacerbate global warming has long remained a mystery. Now, researchers have ...

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 ...