At least two flights briefly traveled faster than the speed of sound as the jet stream sped up, but there would not have been ...

Scientists are scrambling to understand how climate change may be interfering with the winds that carry our weather, with ...

Astronomers have discovered extreme jet-stream winds on exoplanet WASP-127b, reaching astonishing speeds of 20,500 miles per ...

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

Most of the teams plan to catch a ride on the jet stream, which will carry the balloons around the Earth. Therefore, for global balloonists, troughs and ridges present the least desirable air flow ...

One British Airways flight travelling from the US to Portugal reached a ground speed of 1,344km/h as it caught a lift from ...

Some experts say the Frigid air that normally stays trapped in the Arctic escaping is happening more frequently because of a warming world.

(THE CONVERSATION) Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher ...

So whatever happened to global warming? That's certainly what ... The frigid air from the polar vortex warps the jet stream - another powerful air current, but much lower in the atmosphere ...