When we talk about hurricanes, the first number you usually hear is wind speed. That makes sense. Wind is what tears off ...

A Georgia Tech researcher says we may need more tools to measure the full impacts of strong hurricanes like Melissa.

Bucknell University Professor Katelyn Allers, physics & astronomy, is publishing the first measurement of atmospheric wind speed outside the solar system using a new technique she developed. Her study ...

Drones and similar small unmanned aerial vehicles (sUAVs) have seen a massive surge in popularity over the past few years owing to their innovative applications, such as crop monitoring, search and ...

Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to make the first measurement of wind speed on a brown dwarf -- an ...

The west side of the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St. Douglas County leaders are set to consider five requests from Florida-based energy firm NextEra to install devices that measure ...

And the same technique can probably be used on gas giant exoplanets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Brown dwarf winds blow hard.

The deadly tornado that ambushed Enderlin, North Dakota on June 20, 2025 has been upgraded to an EF-5, the strongest level on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale used to measure tornado intensity in the ...

I'll be honest with all of you. I hate wind. It drives me absolutely crazy. For me, it doesn't matter if it's a sustained wind or a gust of wind, it's all the same. But the truth is, there is a very ...