The jet stream has been pushing airliners across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at high speed, with some west-to-east aircraft traveling at above 800 miles per hour.

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 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 ...

An unusually strong jet stream over the Atlantic bringing Storm Eowyn to the UK and Ireland is so powerful it pushed a flight travelling to London to near record speeds, data suggests. According to ...

The planes were traveling at their usual cruising speeds — typically about 600 mph — but were propelled by the North Atlantic jet stream flowing much faster than usual. So, while the planes ...

While jet streams are air patterns, the Gulf Stream is an ocean pattern that also has an impact on weather.

Snow will fall from Minnesota to Maine, with heavy amounts probably falling from Wisconsin to Massachusetts. Freezing rain ...

The UK is bracing itself for an Atlantic jet stream of up to 100mph which could see strong winds batter large parts of the ...

An unusually strong jet stream pushed the British Airways flight to 814 miles per hour nearly breaking the subsonic speed ...

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

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