A Learjet 60 crew reported ice and turbulence before declaring an emergency over Florida. Investigators are examining whether ...

Astrophysicists have made a significant step toward solving the last puzzle in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence theory by observing the weak to strong transition in the space plasma turbulence ...

This is your captain speaking: When thunderstorms are in the forecast, you may need to buckle those seatbelts a lot sooner than you’re used to. By Katherine Kornei Rattled nerves and spilled drinks ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Turin have forced turbulent energy to flow in the wrong direction, reversing a pattern that physicists have treated as settled science ...

Most of us have an understanding of what atmospheric turbulence is – nauseating plane movement is hard to forget. But turbulence is all around us: not just in the air, but also in water, and even in ...

On Friday, Oct. 9, severe turbulence hit New York-bound Avianca Flight 42. The Airbus A320 dropped 25,000 feet in a matter of minutes and at least nine people onboard were hospitalized. It’s not in ...

Newswise — Most people know turbulence as the force that can make airplane flights bumpy. Scientists recognize it as one of the most important, yet unsolved, problems in physics. Despite decades of ...

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Airplane turbulence causes more than spilled drinks and frayed nerves. Injuries from turbulence are rare, but they happen. From 2009 to 2021, 146 airline passengers and crew members were seriously ...

To understand the mysteries surrounding black holes, researchers at Tohoku University have created a simulation of accretion disk turbulence that possesses the highest-resolution currently available.

Photo by WTL via Flickr. No frequent flyer is a stranger to turbulence. But what causes it, and how dangerous is it? Turbulence is the random, chaotic motion of air, caused by changes in air currents.