Not every high-flying jet produces a jet contrail. Conditions have to be just right. That includes the altitude, temperature, and moisture at flight level. Jet contrails are usually produced at ...

Jet contrails can sometimes make for beautiful sunrises and sunsets as lines of clouds stretch from horizon to horizon, bending the light from the incoming sun. But have you ever wondered why they ...

Scientific debate is getting heated over what to do about airplane contrails—the wispy lines of water vapor you often see trailing behind a jet. Those harmless-looking vapor trails sometimes spread ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Did you see the really cool, spiral-shaped cloud hovering along the Front Range early Wednesday afternoon? It was quite the talker on social media and while it's hard to say what ...

What were all those white streaks painted across the blue sky of Lancaster County Thursday morning? At least a handful of residents expressed concerns. A Bowmansville man thought they were large ...

American Airlines and Google were able to cut contrails made by jets by more than half during a small trial, a move that could significantly reduce the global-warming footprint of the travel industry, ...

For three days after September 11, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded commercial aircraft in the U.S., stranding travelers, hindering mail delivery and interrupting courier service, but for ...

NASA will host a media day on Jan. 10 to spotlight a partnership mission with the German Aerospace Agency (DLR) called the Multidisciplinary Airborne Experiment (ND-MAX). ND-MAX research objectives ...