The jet stream plays a crucial role in shaping global weather patterns, affecting everything from hurricanes to heatwaves.

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) per hour, but they are not the strongest in our solar system. The ...

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 comparable high-altitude winds on Neptune reach about 1,200 miles per hour. Those, however, are a mere breeze compared to the jet-stream winds on a planet called WASP-127b. Astronomers have ...

How the Polar Vortex Can Bring Arctic Blasts to the U.S. Vast weather patterns can carry blasts of frigid air far from the polar regions—here’s how it works ...

During these out-of-hurricane season missions, the Air Force Hurricane Hunters are flying larger patterns with specific ...