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 ...

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 ...

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.

When Peter Mongillo looked up at the Saturday afternoon sky and saw what appeared to be a massive tear in the clouds above Marysville, he did what any curious observer would do: He snapped a photo and ...

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 ...