Snow is made up of trillions of tiny ice crystals to make snowflakes, with not one alike. Here's how they form.

Snowflakes vary by size and shape but exactly how many different patterns are there and what weather features influence their appearance?

Though snowflakes come in a bevy of sizes and shapes, the type of snowflakes falling in Milwaukee on Wednesday are probably ...

Snowflakes are like letters from the sky, each crystal a note describing the atmosphere as it falls to the ground. They float effortlessly, but their creation is one of nature’s most complicated ...

Wilson Bentley, a “bona-fide snowflake obsessive,” snapped close-ups of snowflakes in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

You'll see that snowflakes come in an array of different shapes and structures. To start, extremely cold water droplets in a cloud freeze onto bits of dust, dirt, and pollen in the clouds ...

That shape changes even further as they fall through the air. As each snowflake falls, it encounters water vapour in the atmosphere. This has a big effect on its shape. If humidity is low ...

Like snowflakes, supporting Science News can take ... When water molecules chill down, they assemble into a myriad of spectacular shapes from simple hexagons to star-shaped dendrites.

Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so ...

What type of snowflakes are falling on Milwaukee? Though snowflakes come in a bevy of sizes and shapes, the type of snowflakes falling in Milwaukee on Wednesday are probably just what you imagine ...

A light and gentle snow started falling the other day while I was out in the woods. Quickly the tiny flakes started to build a uniform blanket covering the ground. It was a beautiful scene. It was ...