WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 ...

Astronomers aimed the Very Large Telescope in Chile at a nearby exoplanet and discovered jet stream winds blowing nearly 80 times faster than any seen here on Earth, and the fastest of their kind ever ...

Across the Northern Hemisphere, familiar seasons are starting to feel unfamiliar. Heat waves linger, cold snaps arrive out of sync, and storms stall over the same unlucky regions. At the heart of this ...

The fastest wind ever measured in our solar system was on Neptune, with gusts of more than 1,100 miles per hour. But those powerful gales are nothing compared to the supersonic winds that astronomers ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...

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The trade winds are permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in Earth's equatorial region, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern ...