If you look up at the sky on a clear day, chances are you'll notice thin, white clouds—also known as contrails—following ...

Germany’s DLR Aerospace Research Center has deployed a Dassault Falcon 20E aircraft to monitor contrail formation in European ...

Aviation's climate impact extends beyond carbon dioxide emissions. A new international study, involving researchers from ...

ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee explains the science responsible for the appearance of lines in the sky.

German researchers have begun a series of flights to measure the contrails produced by the latest-generation engines as part ...

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 ...

Contrails in the blue sky remind us of daily air traffic—and its impact on the climate. However, the effect of contrails on the climate is still only partially understood. It is assumed that they have ...

Alcohol-to-Jet fuel can cut aviation emissions using existing ethanol, but high costs and limited supply make it a helper, ...