16-06-03 Astronomers using the upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico have produced the most detailed radio map yet of the atmosphere of Jupiter, revealing the massive movement of ammonia gas that underlies the colorful bands, spots and whirl...

16-01-13 The Greenland Ice Sheet is the second largest ice sheet in the world and it's melting rapidly, likely driving almost a third of global sea level rise. A new study shows clouds are playing a larger role in that process than scientists previously beli...

15-08-12 There was once a bird called the roc, whose back was as big as Mount Tai and whose wings were like clouds that overspread the heaven. When it wheeled up into the air a whirlwind arose, and in each flight it covered ninety thousand li, flying above t...

14-09-11 A team of scientists led by Carnegie's Jacqueline Faherty has discovered the first evidence of water ice clouds on an object outside of our own Solar System. Water ice clouds exist on our own gas giant planets -- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune...

13-12-30 Massive stars -- those at least 8 times the mass of our Sun -- present an intriguing（有趣的） mystery: how do they grow so large when the vast majority of stars in the Milky Way are considerably smaller? To find the answer, astronomers used the Ata...

13-05-10 At any given time, cirrus clouds（卷云） -- the thin wisps of vapor that trail across the sky -- cover nearly one-third of the globe. These clouds coalesce（使联合） in the upper layers of the troposphere（对流层） , often more than 10 miles above t...

13-04-22 Midnight Loon Arthur Sze Burglars enter an apartment and ransack（洗劫，遍寻） drawers; finding neither gold nor cash, they flee, leaving the laundry and bathroom lights on they have fled themselves. I catch the dipping pitch of a motorcycle, iceber...

12-03-14 Bows and flows of angel hair, and ice cream castles in the air; we've looked at clouds that way. But the interface（界面，接口） between clouds and clear air isn't as well-defined as these imaginative shapes might lead us to believe. Detecting that...

10-05-28 A surprising discovery that hydrogen gas clouds found in abundance（充足的，大量的） in and above our Milky Way Galaxy have preferred locations has given astronomers a key clue about the origin of such clouds, which play an important part in galaxy...

09-10-30 NASA's Aqua satellite captured Rick's remnant（残余） clouds and showers as they charged through Texas and fed moisture（潮湿，湿气） into a low pressure system that is migrating across the U.S. By mid-day on October 22, Rick's remnant moisture had...