NASA’s AIM satellite has provided the first global-scale, full-season view of iridescent polar clouds that form 50 miles above Earth’s surface. The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission is ...

Noctilucent clouds captured above Antarctica. (NESDA, Copyright 2024 by WJXT News4Jax - All rights reserved.) A satellite photographed a rare type of high-altitude ...

WASHINGTON – NASA is preparing to launch the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft, the first mission dedicated to exploration of mysterious ice clouds that dot the edge of space in Earth ...

Polar mesospheric clouds over the South Pacific Ocean are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 34 crew member on the International Space Station. Polar mesospheric clouds over the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While there aren’t any tasty flying snacks on offer, scientists are curious about a rare and poorly understood kind of cloud which ...

Summer brings the shortest nights of the year and the rare chance to see clouds with origins in outer space. Known as noctilucent clouds, these shimmering, electric-blue formations hover roughly 50 ...

Clouds bright enough to see at night are not as hard to find as they once were. These so-called night-shining clouds are still rare — rare enough that Matthew DeLand, who has been studying them for 11 ...

Noctilucent clouds are some of the most poorly understood meteorological phenomena on Earth. High-hanging and electric-blue in hue, the ethereal, night-shining formations feature prominently in this ...

The surface of Venus is a hellscape with temperatures hot enough to melt lead, but some regions of its atmosphere high over the surface remain cool enough to harbor ice and birth ghostly clouds When ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The night sky can host a wide range of spectacular sights like the northern lights, meteor showers and comets, as well as phenomena like noctilucent clouds. You likely have heard of ...