MACON, Ga. — A rainbow forms when sunlight enters a raindrop. When this happens, sunlight bounces around the raindrop and changes speed and direction. That's called refraction. These changes also ...

Photo taken: June 29 at Rainy Lake in the North Cascades Photographer’s description: “After a night of astro photography at Washington Pass, I stopped by Rainy Lake before heading home. A rainbow was ...

Tuesday evening, if you happened to be looking up, you may have seen some rainbow-esqe clouds high in the sky. As showers and thunderstorms moved across Orlando, several viewers sent in photos to FOX ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Can rainbows form in a circle? – Henry D., age 7 ...

The weather conditions right now are very conducive to rainbows, but not just the ordinary, single rainbows. We had a lot of double rainbows in the past two days. Let’s look at why our sky has looked ...

On January 4, 2026, in Santa Cruz, California, USA, @DustinMulvaney shared a video of a striking double rainbow forming rapidly over the city’s coastal cliffs and ocean waves. In the video, gusty ...