A flash flood is a rapid rise of water along a stream or in a low-lying urban area, the National Weather Service said. Flash ...

Shocking moment a gust of wind almost knocked over world's 7th tallest building In 1978 an undergraduate student at Princeton University cold called an architect’s office and helped prevent one ...

If a big asteroid — like the one whizzing by on Wednesday — slammed into the Earth, ferocious winds of up to 1,000 mph and intense shock waves would kill the most people, according to a study ...

The clip from May 25 showed the seemingly ordinary poolside scene quickly turn into a spectacle when a sudden gust of wind whisked a woman's pool float into the sky.

When solar winds bombard Earth's magnetosphere, they create waves that shouldn't be able to traverse a turbulent region called the shock. New research demonstrates how this appears to happen.

“What we can say is that Ulysses took just 2.5 days to traverse the shocked solar wind surrounding Comet Hyakutake, compared to an incredible 18 days in shocked wind surrounding Comet McNaught.

Researchers have long suspected that we can thank this bow shock for reducing the scorching solar wind into the mild breezes we feel on Earth, but they didn't know exactly how this happened. Now ...

Voyager 2 crossed the solar wind termination shock at 83.7 au in the southern hemisphere, ∼ 10 au closer to the Sun than found by Voyager 1 in the north 1,2,3,4.This asymmetry could indicate an ...

Gust of Wind Takes Woman's Floatie, Shock Over What Happens Next. Published May 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM EDT. By . Melissa Fleur Afshar is a Newsweek reporter based in London, United Kingdom.