Explore the extraordinary weather phenomena on WASP-127b, where supersonic winds reach speeds of 33,000 kilometers per hour.

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 ...

Punxsutawney Phil, the legendary weather-forecasting groundhog from Punxsutawney, PA, saw his shadow Sunday morning, thus ...

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 ...

When the water cools in the equatorial Pacific, it changes the pressure in the air above, which changes the jet stream and pressure patterns across the globe. During a weak La Nina, a typical La ...