Commercial flights bound for Europe have been taking off late from the States but arriving on time or early, thanks to a more powerful jet stream, strengthened by the arctic air mass that settled ...

The reason? Fierce jet stream winds supercharging its speed. The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway. If flights are heading ...

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 ...

It isn't the return of Concorde — instead, regular wide-body jets were flying through an accelerated jet stream. According to data from Flightradar24, Qatar Airways Flight 704 reached a top ...

The reason? Fierce jet stream winds supercharging its speed. The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway. If flights are heading ...

In the earth’s upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 442 km per hour, but they are not the strongest in our solar system. The comparable ...

The super-fast jet stream, which is fuelling Storm Eowyn, is cutting journey times between the US and Britain by nearly an hour, and could soon break flight records, data shows. On Wednesday ...

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 ...

Astronomers have spotted a "supersonic jetstream" on a nearby alien world, with winds reaching 20,500 mph (33,000 km/h) — the fastest planetary gusts detected anywhere in the cosmos. The record ...

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.