Clouds that brought to mind UFOs and other sci-fi scenes hovered over the Coachella Valley on Monday. Here's why.

Zanya Biviano took this photo of unusual cloud formations over the Valley on the evening of Oct. 31. “Is the sky in a ...

There are a few reasons as to why some nights are cooler than others, but one main reason is the amount of cloud cover in the ...

Discover the top driest places on Earth, why they experience such little rainfall and what can survive in each region's harsh ...

We lay 1,200 feet, more or less, beneath the desert, down countless rope pitches ... that we had acquired while squeezing through a tight formation-lined tube. From the entrance, we had descended ...

ON A MAY MORNING two pickup trucks passed through the quiet town of San Pedro in Chile’s Atacama Desert and headed up ... Mountains forming a barrier to clouds gathering above the Amazon to ...

These particles help in the condensation of water vapour and the formation of raindrops or ice crystals - leading to cloud formation ... half's worth of rain on the desert city-state of Dubai ...

Aside from abundant sunshine, a trip to Bend, Ore. offered our writer hikes, stargazing excursions and more on a recent trip.

With the clouds erupting from the trees around us, I questioned if their definition of a desert was the same as ... These large formations hinted at the landscape further south, where the smooth ...

The reclusive land artist Michael Heizer turned 80 this week. We celebrated by taking a life-changing voyage to visit his ...

Are you curious about airflow, storms, cloud formation and energy processes ... You can complete internships and student research projects in the Desert Research Institute (DRI) Division of ...

The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...