(THE CONVERSATION) When an unexpected rainstorm leaves you soaking wet, it is an annoyance. When a drought leads to fires, crop failures and water shortages, the significance of weather becomes ...

Welcome to Smartphone Picture of the Week! Each week, we select and share your best smartphone photos in an online feature ...

Get ready to be amazed by these 5 super easy and super cool experiments! Witness mind-blowing reactions with simple materials that will leave you in awe. From the fascinating Rayleigh–Bénard ...

Snow is made up of trillions of tiny ice crystals to make snowflakes, with not one alike. Here's how they form.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The “smell of rain” isn’t just a figment of your imagination. Human noses can detect chemical ...

The Sun sets differently on Mars. Part of that is due to its distance from the star (an average of 142 million miles versus ...

Expect more showers to arrive Tuesday morning, clearing out through lunchtime. Even as the rain clears, our skies will remain cloudy throughout the day. Temperatures stay chilly, topping out ...

The spacecraft carries nine science ... make even bigger storms in Jupiter’s tumultuous atmosphere. This pair of false-color images, made from data obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, shows ...

The combination of these situations is that when the ground is snow covered, clouds make it warmer and clear skies make it colder. Without snow, clouds make nights warmer while clear skies make ...

NASA will send astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams home from the International Space Station early on a previously ...

The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...

While most look for ways to avoid the steady rain falling from atmospheric rivers, some take advantage of the unwieldy ...