ST. LOUIS – The sky is always changing colors—from a bright blue on a clear day, to red and orange sunrises or sunsets, or multiple colors of a rainbow—there’s a lot going on that we don’t always ...

You might think that explaining why the sky is blue would be kind of simple. But even a brief explanation of it requires a lot of science. The colors of everything you see are produced in different ...

The sun emits white light, which is a combination of all the colors of the visible light spectrum. That is the spectrum that the human eye is capable of seeing to varying degrees. Blue light tends to ...

It's an age-old question and one that any meteorologist hears quite often. Why is the sky blue? It has to do with light waves and how they travel through our atmosphere. The light from our sun travels ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Today, we will answer the age-old question: why is the sky blue? Let’s take it back to elementary school when we used to play with glass prisms and flashlights. As kids, we would shine ...

Before we can understand why the sky looks bluer in the fall, it's important to first know why the sky appears blue in the first place. The sun emits white light, and due to Rayleigh scattering (the ...