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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

For decades, people speculated why strange gaps like this one, observed in 2008 over Linz, Austria, appeared in clouds. In 2010, researchers showed how airplanes might be responsible. This hole-punch ...

Three nearly identical, UFO-like cloud formations recently appeared over Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, sparking online discussions linking the features to everything from the Second Coming to recent ...