One of the biggest causes of climate change remains the airline industry. Now, AI is working to help. Traveling by air is a ...

You've definitely seen them in the sky before, but have you ever wondered how plane contrails form? Typically it's a fairly simple process of condensation from jet engines, but sometimes it's just the ...

From the top of a plane wing, another airplane is seen flying above clouds in a blue sky, leaving a contrail in its wake. In spring 2023, scientists aboard a research aircraft chased an Airbus A321neo ...

Contrails – short for condensation trails – are linear clouds made up of ice crystals that form behind jet aircraft at high altitudes. These artificial cirrus clouds are formed when hot and moist ...

In a new study, co-authored by Fangqun Yu of UAlbany's Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, a team of researchers found that modern “lean-burn” aircraft engines still produce the conditions necessary ...

Some contrails can contribute to global warming. Contrails—pure ice clouds (“cirrus”) that form from aircraft exhaust under specific cold conditions—can trap heat in the atmosphere, sometimes creating ...

The “paths in the sky” you’re seeing are almost certainly jet contrails (short for condensation trails). These are a visual reminder that an average of 40,000 “contrail-capable” passenger and cargo ...