The cloud cover isn't what it used to be, and scientists say it is helping fuel Earth's hottest temperatures on record.

Rising temperatures are fueled, in part, by declining cloud cover — which could be a potential climate feedback loop.

This stunning satellite photo shows one of the world's most famous and potentially dangerous volcanoes, Mount Vesuvius, playing a game of peek-a-boo with an orbiting spacecraft through a strangely ...

For more on the satellites that keep their eyes on Earth, visit NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service. This section contains a cloud gallery with 260 beautiful images of a range of 10 cloud ...

Earth’s prolonged streak of abnormal heat continued into 2025 despite the arrival of La Niña ocean conditions, which ...

In this video, delicate red-and-green-tinted clouds are seen drifting through the Martian sky in striking patterns that look similar to the ones Earth clouds make. Studying how and where on Mars ...

and it has metal clouds that appear to be raining down titanium droplets. Exoplanet LTT9779 b, which orbits a star about 262 light-years from Earth, is so reflective it acts almost like a mirror ...

Latin for “night shining,” noctilucent clouds (also known as twilight clouds) are responsible for Earth’s vibrant red, orange, and purple dawn and dusk skies. If the conditions are just ...