Each snowflake’s shape reflects the atmospheric conditions it encounters, helping meteorologists study precipitation patterns ...

A video of a couple witnessing perfectly shaped snowflakes on Utah's Great Salt Lake has gone viral on social media.

SNAPS of Mars in snow are quite rare, given how hard they are to capture. But they give us a glimpse of what a future Mars ...

They are seed crystals, from which a snowflake derives and grows. As the seed crystal drifts through clouds, water molecules attach to it and take the shape of a hexagonal base. It's important to ...

CLEVELAND — Snowflakes, those delicate ice crystals, come in various shapes and sizes. This frozen precipitation is shaped by specific temperature and humidity conditions. The formation of ...

“Because carbon dioxide ice has a symmetry of four, we know dry-ice snowflakes would be cube-shaped,” said Piqueux. “Thanks to the Mars Climate Sounder, we can tell these snowflakes would be ...