AUSTIN (KXAN) – Meteorologists classify air masses based on their humidity and temperature. The location of an air mass is a key factor in determining its humidity. Air masses that form over large ...

Last weekend's winter storm served as a wonderful example of how one weather system can produce several types of wintry precipitation. Leading up to the storm, you may have noticed that many ...

Want to help scientists discover more about the solar system’s biggest planet? Then become a Jovian Vortex Hunter. Scientists at NASA are asking for the public’s help with identifying different types ...

Winter weather brings more than just snow, with various types of precipitation determined by atmospheric temperatures.Rain ...

Scientists in the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have used the oldest minerals on Earth to reconstruct the atmospheric conditions present on Earth very soon after ...

Research partly conducted at the Advanced Photon Source helped scientists discover the composition of Earth’s first atmosphere. What they found raises questions about the origin of life on Earth. A ...

There are three types of neutrino — electron, muon and tau — and the type is set when a neutrino is generated or detected. For example, in a nuclear process called β decay, an unstable nucleus ...