Every once in a while, you may look up toward the sun and see strange bright lights on either side of it. Or perhaps you'll be sitting in an aircraft, looking out the window at its shadow, and see a ...

An optical phenomenon known as a sun dog was spotted in the sky over several Connecticut towns on Tuesday afternoon. These colorful spots of light were visible in towns like Trumbull, Rocky Hill, ...

It’s a colorful sight in the sky that may seem both fleeting and incomplete. Chances are you’ve seen what appears to be a sliver of bright color up there near sunrise or sunset. That’s called a sun ...

"If we were able to take a picture of WASP-17b at optical wavelengths and resolve the disk of the planet, we would see these types of sun dog features." When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Sun dogs, with a scientific name of perhelion, are either of two colored luminous spots that appear at roughly 22 degrees on both sides of the sun at the same elevation, according to the National ...

Sun dog phenomenon captivates Iowa residents after blizzard ...

Wednesday morning was another cold day with temperatures below zero. There are many times when it gets this cold and there are some cirrus clouds in the area we get a chance to see sun dogs either ...