Cloud seeding does not create clouds or precipitation from clear skies. It can only be effective when clouds with the right ...

This is the moment a perfect circle “cloud” was spotted in the skies over Doncaster. The formation was seen above Bentley on ...

At the United States Air Force Academy, daily life is guided by ritual, even at the dinner table. Cadets study Contrails, a compact handbook of history, ranks, and expectations, then march together in ...

High above the ground, thin white streaks called contrails sometimes often trail airplanes, quietly altering how heat moves through the atmosphere. According to scientists, airplane contrails may play ...

Some contrails can contribute to global warming. Contrails—pure ice clouds (“cirrus”) that form from aircraft exhaust under specific cold conditions—can trap heat in the atmosphere, sometimes creating ...

How can an aircraft’s contrails, which are artificial ice clouds formed from hot engines and cold altitudes, contribute to climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

Aviation’s climate impact extends beyond carbon dioxide emissions. A new study from Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Imperial College, UK, reveals that ...

Formation Bio is inking a deal worth more than $600 million in biobucks for ex-China rights to a next-gen immunology asset from Lynk Pharmaceuticals. Lynk’s program will be developed by Formation’s ...

Fangqun Yu, a senior research faculty member at the University at Albany’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, has developed an advanced model for simulating contrail formation and has published ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (Dec. 4, 2025) — If you look up at the sky on a clear day, chances are you’ll notice thin, white clouds following behind airplanes— also known as contrails. The formation of these wispy ...

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket at 2:44 a.m. Monday, Dec. 1, on the 102nd orbital liftoff thus far this year from Florida's Space Coast. The SpaceX Starlink 6-86 mission rose along a southeasterly ...