A satellite that looks like a giant parasol was launched into orbit today, and will open itself up automatically in space.

This striking satellite image reveals a giant, near-perfect cloud ... "As the warm air became buoyant and rose, cumulus clouds and eventually patches of light rain probably developed.

A dense dust storm swept California’s San Joaquin Valley on Monday, with massive clouds of swirling ... marked the first big rain of the season for the region, and the landscape was parched ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.