When listener Sakura’s husband came home from his morning walk in Cambridgeshire, UK, he told her about a massive rainbow he’d seen. But when he showed her a picture, she didn’t think it was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A rainbow forms when sunlight is refracted ...

Answer: The principal indication given by a double bow is that the raindrops that are refracting and reflecting sunlight are of medium to large size, rather than being very small or tiny droplets.

The higher your vantage point, the more likely you’ll see more of the rainbow’s circle. Chen Hui/VCG via Getty Images The legend goes that there is a pot of gold hidden at the end of every rainbow.

Scientists say the rainbow you see is a completely different rainbow from the one seen by the person standing next to you.

Fogbows are made the same way as rainbows, but with fog instead of rain. Rather than larger raindrops in the air, fog or low clouds are made of smaller water droplets. Why does this matter? Fogbows ...

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 ...

A weather phenomenon known as a “fire rainbow” was seen over one of the lighthouses guarding the shipwreck-laden Graveyard of the Atlantic off North Carolina. “Fire rainbows” aren’t exactly rainbows, ...

There are a few things you need to see a rainbow. The main things are water droplets and sunlight. The water droplets need to be illuminated by bright sunshine and they must also be in the right ...