In a mission designed to challenge longstanding theories about the upper atmosphere, NASA is preparing to launch three ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

For instance, a CAPE value significantly above 1000 J/kg suggests a highly unstable atmosphere, making it conducive for storms to develop. Conversely, lower CAPE values might result in weaker storms ...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to cross the southeast Queensland coast late this Thursday as a Category 2 storm. The ...

The atmosphere's lowermost 10 km have long been ... forcing of the circulation — that of waves in the tropics forced by convection (W. J. Randel, National Center for Atmospheric Research ...

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

More information: Aditya Kottapalli et al, Equatorial convection controls boreal summer intraseasonal oscillations in the present and future climates, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science (2025).

Let’s look at the process by which clouds form. Clouds form when air cools and water vapor condenses. There are four ways that cause air to rise in our atmosphere, which is necessary to initiate the ...

What Is A Nor'wester? Kalbaishakhi, or Nor'wester, is a fierce thunderstorm unique to eastern India during the pre-monsoon ...

This convective activity transfers large amounts of energy to the upper-atmosphere over the Maritime Continent and contributes to the ... As the SSTs across the Maritime Continent region change so too ...