A recent study led by Dilda Berdikhan, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has uncovered compelling evidence that a cloud–cloud ...

As part of the international CLOUD project at the nuclear research center CERN, researchers at PSI have identified so-called sesquiterpenes—gaseous hydrocarbons that are released by plants—as being a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Low-level cumulus clouds appear to trace portions of Houston's freeway network in this satellite image from Tuesday morning.

Star formation unfolds within the cold, dense regions of molecular clouds, vast accumulations of gas and dust that permeate galactic discs. Turbulent motions and magnetic fields within these clouds ...