Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Astronomers have struggled to explain why a long and thin cloud forms above Mars’s Arsia Mons volcano each year, until now ...

Strange interstellar object hurtling towards Earth has now grown a tail, astronomers say - Comet travelling on an orbit that ...

(CAPE TOWN, South Africa) — After an unarmed missile test-fired off the California coast Saturday evening, creating a disturbance in the night sky, the next day, Cape Town, South Africa, reported ...

On December 2, 2024, a striking natural occurrence mesmerized onlookers over Wichita, Kansas, as two unique formations known as cavum clouds appeared in the midlevel sky. These fascinating structures ...

I received this letter in my inbox with this attached photo. “We are currently on a Regal Princess cruise (that left Galveston a few weeks back) visiting the Azores (Portugal) where we came across ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

A faraway gas giant planet that's famous for being strangely "puffy" appears to have clouds that are made of tiny bits of sand. The sand likely acts as water does on Earth, falling like rain towards ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — It’s hole punch season! Hole punch cloud season that is, otherwise known as fall streak holes. They’re not ‘out of this world’ or even ‘geo-engineered’. They form naturally in ...