Asperatus — the first "new" type of cloud in decades — is about to get the recognition it deserves in the latest edition of the International Cloud Atlas, the world's top reference book for clouds.

The epic Cloud Atlas is unconventional, defying what we're used to seeing in a studio film. It's complex, weaving varied stories from multiple eras together and linking them with theme and intent. And ...

What’s in a name? Asperitas comes from the Latin word for roughness. In 2006, the Cloud Appreciation Society, a group of weather enthusiasts based in the UK, received the first images of the ...

The world's cloud authority, having not classified a new cloud in three decades, arose Thursday to name about a dozen new types, including a rolling, slalom-like form known to blanket the Iowa sky.

Cast and crew members discuss financing, their love for the project and the messages conveyed by the film at the Los Angeles premiere. By C. Molly Smith Writer-directors Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski ...

The dazzling cinematic folly that is “Cloud Atlas’’ springs from the same idealistic impulse that has driven movies like “The Tree of Life,’’ “2001: A Space Odyssey,’’ even D.W. Griffith’s 1916 ...

Cloud Atlas is an ambitious, intriguing film but its sprawling narrative feels at once too busy for three hours and overly long. Cloud Atlas is a beautiful film. Unfortunately, it's also a very long ...

The futuristic sections of the novel and movie 'Cloud Atlas' have some interesting changes to the English language. (Warner Bros. Pictures) In the futuristic sections of the novel "Cloud Atlas," by ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Clouds are something you probably don't take that much notice of, unless they're about to rain on you ...