The ice in a domestic freezer is remarkably different from the single crystals that form in snow clouds, or even those formed ...

PARK CITY, Utah — FOX 13 viewer Nanci Done in Park City captured some unique sights in the winter sky on Friday: hexagonal ice crystals hard at work, creating some "atmospheric optics." Ice crystals ...

Farmer Wilson Bentley was the first to photograph the tiny snow crystals individually, and his collection reveals that each ...

Bright patches of light, known as sun dogs, appear when sunlight bends through hexagonal ice crystals in high-altitude clouds. These dazzling displays, often seen in cold, clear conditions or near ...

Pilots over the Himalayas sometimes witness three suns due to sundogs, an optical phenomenon caused by sunlight refracting through hexagonal ice crystals in high-altitude clouds. These crystals bend ...

The blowing snow Thursday created another round of beautiful sun dogs in the sky, prompting a number of questions about how and why they form. Sun dogs are caused by hexagonal ice crystals suspended ...

For the first time in almost 5,000 years of observations, researchers have fully cataloged optical illusions created in the sky as light shines through ice crystals known as atmospheric halos. The ...

MIKE MOSS SAYS: Bill, Rings around the moon can be caused by ice crystals or by small water droplets in clouds that are shallow enough to allow the moon to be seen behind them, and the ring size ...

In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her ...