Unlike other celestial metaphors -- the sun, moon, stars -- clouds have varying qualities depending on the day, and their range of appearances make them useful metaphors for a range of qualities.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured breathtakingly detailed images of two giant exoplanets ...

Five parts deal in turn with “The Moon”, “The Sun”, “The Sun's Family of Planets”, “The Stars”, and “Astronomers and Observatories”, and the subjects are treated in a manner ...

Such clouds are thin enough to only slightly dim the sun, moon and brighter stars, but apparently just opaque enough to hide a dim patch of light like the Beehive. Joe Rao is a television ...