There's something beautiful we can only see up there on the long, balmy nights of summer: noctilucent clouds, or NLC. Normally clouds are the astronomer's archenemy, but these clouds are different.

A Space X launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Southern California produced a noctilucent cloud visible in the eastern ...

We had a special treat Wednesday morning due to noctilucent clouds that are rarely seen in the Florida sky. Noctilucent clouds are a part of a celestial phenomena usually found near the Arctic ...

Noctilucent, or "night-shining", clouds can be seen on Mars, just as they are on Earth. Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover imaged these high-altitude clouds on 17 May, 2019, using its navigation cameras.

These clouds, called noctilucent clouds, light up the sky during the summer time for the South Pole. NASA recently released footage from its AIM spacecraft, which observed the first noctilucent ...

Polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs), particularly noctilucent clouds (NLCs), are fascinating atmospheric phenomena that occur in the mesosphere, typically at altitudes of 80 to 86 kilometers.

These clouds - known as noctilucent - are wispy and ghost-like formations that exist in the upper atmosphere at the edge of space. They are thought to be made up of ice crystals that form on fine ...