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.

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 ...

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 ...

Rainbows can occur anywhere light and water droplets cross paths, even at night. A celestial light show was captured in California's Yosemite National Park recently, one of the “very few waterfall ...

This weekend brings a colorful retail shop pop-up at the northeastern corner of 14th and R Streets NW, where the entrance and lobby of Whitman-Walker’s Elizabeth Taylor Center stood a decade ago. Now ...

Call it a marriage of timing, equipment and the elements. This photographer chanced upon a rainbow forming over a waterfall at this popular North Cascades lake.

A trick I learned from a World War II-era Army-trained aviator was to look for rainbows appearing around the taxiway lights ...

An eagle-eyed hiker spotted a rainbow forming after water sprayed from a blowhole at the Point Lobos State Natural Reserve in California on Sunday, January 28. Video posted to X by user @cyn_palmer ...

Not every rainbow is gay – technically. There are stark differences between the colors of the rainbows we see in nature and the ones on the LGBTQIA+ pride flag. While both natural rainbows and the ...