The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway.

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 jet stream that helped dump a foot of snow on the Gulf Coast is now accelerating over the Atlantic Ocean, helping fuel the strongest storm on record over Ireland with gusts over 100 mph and 50 ft ...

The fastest recorded ground speed reached by a transatlantic flight was 835mph, which was hit by a commercial aircraft going from New York to Lisbon last February. Although such a speed is officially ...

The world's biggest iceberg is drifting toward a tiny south Atlantic island, potentially affecting the wildlife there, ...

While jet streams are air patterns, the Gulf Stream is an ocean pattern that also has an ... the East Coast of the U.S., and flows across the Atlantic, all the way to the Norwegian Sea.

A Virgin Atlantic aircraft, too, once managed to achieve high subsonic speed in 2019 on a flight from Los Angeles to London.

Significant ice and snow will fall across northern states on Wednesday, Thursday and over the weekend as a busy weather ...

One of the most devastating (and hardest to mitigate) effects of climate change for the Northern Hemisphere is the slowing of ...

Pilots have been exploiting the augmented jet stream to coast across the Atlantic Ocean at speeds of up to 840 mph — which is faster than the speed of sound, the outlet reported. The planes didn ...