A new interactive app called Wind Vector, created by Blaze Pollard, visualizes global wind direction and speed in real time ...

What can sand dunes on Earth and Mars teach us about the latter’s wind behavior and atmosphere? This is what a recently awarded NASA grant hopes to address as a PhD student at Texas A&M University ...

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 ...

No Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclones have formed in 2025 as of May 16, a phenomenon only seen five other times since 1950. Unusual wind patterns near the Philippines are suppressing storm ...

The study tracked Hudson Bay polar bears for 11 years using GPS and satellite imagery before cross-referencing their movements with wind patterns. Ron Togunov, lead author on the ...

The simplest definition of wind is air in motion. Wind is generated by uneven pressure in the atmosphere, which is caused by uneven heating by the Sun, land, and oceans. The air closest to the ground ...

Exoplanets have a remarkable diversity of planetary types, including a class known as ultrahot Jupiters. The similarity to Jupiter in the Solar System is that they are gas giants. However, they are ...