SEATTLE -- It was a sun halo party over Seattle Wednesday morning and every kind of atmospheric event was invited. Dr. Angela Rowe with the University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences Department ...

Sunday evening ended with a visual treat in the sky, and Monday morning continued the atmospheric spectacle! Cirrostratus clouds drifting over Metro Atlanta produced my favorite atmospheric optical ...

SEATTLE -- If you were up early Wednesday morning, you might have been treated to a rather brilliant show in the skies near the sun. Photos from around the region showed a rather bright halo around ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - When it’s extremely cold and sunny, atmospheric optics can appear, including sun and moon dogs, halos ...

Monday night, we received this message from Jordyn Tracy in Fuquay-Varina. "Hello! I thought you all would find this interesting... I was heading out to go home when I looked up to see what I think ...

On Reddit, users located as far as the U.K. also reported seeing the ghostly phenomenon. A moon halo is actually an atmospheric optical illusion that causes a large, bright ring to surround our ...

Whether they’re idyllic floating cotton balls on an otherwise blue sky or ominous grey swirls that block the sun, clouds all begin as an invisible dot of water vapor. This elusive gas has been tricky ...

If you've ever looked up at the full moon in the night sky, you may have noticed a large halo of light around it. But why does this lustrous ring sometimes encircle our natural satellite? While it ...

JWST observations of Saturn's atmosphere revealed unprecedented details of its aurora and upper atmosphere, including previously unseen, complex structures. In the ionosphere (1100 km altitude), dark, ...

An atmospheric phenomenon known as a sun halo was spotted in the sky over southern Maine on Monday. A picture captured by WMTW photojournalist Kevyn Fowler shows the sun halo could be seen over the ...