The planes didn’t break the sound barrier because it was the air moving them so quickly, not their engines. The report compared it to someone walking on a moving walkway at an airport – the person is ...

The Earth's atmosphere also has smaller, less consistent jet streams, such as the equatorial jet stream and the African easterly jet stream. The closer you are to a jet stream, the more active the ...

In addition to the powerful jet stream winds blowing around the equatorial region of WASP-127 b, the researchers were also able to make a more detailed weather map of the planet. Although it is ...

North America's weather is largely influenced by the water temperature in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific Ocean. This is due to the ever-present jet stream that typically moves from ...

As the Arctic rapidly warms, the temperature difference between the polar region and lower latitudes decreases, which weakens ...