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'Nobody knew why this was happening': Scientists race to understand baffling behavior of 'clumping clouds'
Scientists are discovering that clumping clouds supercharge storms in surprising ways — driving heavy, deadly rainfall and flooding
Stunning cloud vortices swirl off 6 different Atlantic islands
Earth from space A 2015 satellite photo captured a series of stunning "von Kármán vortices" swirling off Madeira and the Canary Islands. The giant swirls are collectively one of the best examples of this meteorological phenomenon ever seen.
The universe's 'missing matter' may have finally been found
About half of the non-dark matter in the universe cannot be accounted for by stars and galaxies alone. Now, scientists say previously undetected clouds of hydrogen gas could finally reveal it.
Giant, near-perfect cloud ring appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
Earth from space A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
See spectacular photos from Saturday's partial solar eclipse
The partial solar eclipse on March 29 wowed skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere.
Italy's 'ticking time bomb' plays peek-a-boo through a mysterious hole in the clouds
Earth from space This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up through a strange gap in the clouds.
Svalbard's radioactive 'Bear Island' surrounded by rare cloud swirls and a giant algal bloom
Earth from space A 2023 satellite image captured a pair of peculiar phenomena painting parallel swirls in the sea and sky around Norway's Bear Island, which is surrounded by extremely radioactive waters left behind by a doomed Soviet submarine.
New thunderstorms wider than Earth are spewing out green lightning on Jupiter — and could make one of the gas giant's massive bands disappear
A pair of massive thunderstorms have been spotted swirling in Jupiter's "South Equatorial Belt" and are likely unleashing massive bolts of green lightning. Some experts think the pale clouds could end up altering the rusty band's color — and potentially even making it "disappear."
