The Basic Building Blocks Every Cloud Needs Clouds need two essential ingredients to form, and both must be present ...

Only one side of a silver crystal has the right structure to trigger ice formation, revealing how these particles help clouds ...

It rains on the sun, and thanks to researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), we finally know why. Unlike water that falls from the sky on Earth, solar rain happens in the ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Institute for Astronomy have discovered why it rains on the sun. Unlike water that falls from the sky on Earth, solar rain ...

Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost layer composed of intensely hot plasma. This phenomenon involves cooler, ...

Amanda Stricklan, who was raised in Anchorage, presented her dissertation Wednesday during a session at the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Anchorage. Stricklan, a doctoral candidate in ...

Snow is the classic of any winter precipitation and forms when temperatures are at or below freezing in the cloud and at to ...

CLEVELAND — When cold, unstable air sweeps across the Great Lakes in fall and early winter, it can trigger lake-effect precipitation. This week, lake rain showers have streamed in with periodic bursts ...