For more than 50 years it has been known that aircraft can punch large holes or carve out canals inside clouds as they pass through them – but no-one had been able to explain exactly why this happens.

Airplanes may alter the weather around airports to a small degree by punching holes in clouds and even causing snow or rain, a new study indicates. Looking at weather data from seven airports located ...

Four times the holes, four times the trouble. With the fate of repetitive motion injury looming due to the need to drill 1,200 holes, [bitluni] took matters into his own hands and built this nifty DIY ...

MOLINE, Ill — Perhaps one of the strangest appearing things in the sky you'll ever witness, this unique cloud formation comes in different sizes and shapes. It is, however, usually caused by the same ...

In this step-by-step forging journey, see how a skilled blacksmith shapes, tempers, and finishes a hollow hole punch entirely ...

Sightings of hole-punch clouds inundated the Facebook page for the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia, on Monday with more than a dozen photos sent in from across northern Georgia.

Tuesday’s Google Doodle celebrates the 131st anniversary of the day Friedrich Soennecken filed a patent for what would soon become arguably the sleekest, most elegant example of applied physics known ...

The cloud received its name due to the resemblance of a circular gap in the middle of a cloudy sky and giving the appearance of cloud streaks falling from the center. This is a rare phenomenon that ...

This was one of many hole punch clouds that appeared over parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota on Sunday, Nov. 7. Screengrab/Facebook - CIMSS at University of Wisconsin-Madison Mysterious ...