The next time you're delayed by rain or snow at an airport, consider this: It's possible that an airplane actually caused the bad weather. When aircraft fly though certain clouds, they can trigger a ...

DALLAS — Look in the sky! What are those things? A black hole coming to end the planet as we know it? Is it aliens?! It's not quite as cool as black holes or aliens, but it's still pretty interesting ...

Have you ever seen a cloud that looks like a hole punch went through it? The weather phenomenon, called fallstreak holes, occur when supercooled water particles in a cloud fall, leaving behind a ...

Have you ever seen this happen in the sky? It looks like a certain type of cloud, but with a huge hole in the middle of it? Image credit: Leslie Becker, WDRB viewer, Dec 21st, '21, For many years, we ...

Fallstreak holes are a cloud formation that occurs as gaps in mid or high level cloud layers. Below them, trails of ice crystals dangle. In order for a fallstreak hole to form, the cloud layer must be ...

For more than 50 years it has been known that aircraft can punch large holes or carve out canals inside clouds as they pass through them – but no-one had been able to explain exactly why this happens.