Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

Giant balloons launched into the stratosphere to beam internet service to Earth have helped scientists measure tiny ripples in our upper atmosphere, uncovering patterns that could improve weather ...

The January e-mail from Syracuse University physicist Peter Saulson caught me off guard. It probably shouldn’t have, since I had been anticipating the news for 16 years, ever since I wrote Einstein’s ...

Detecting gravity waves isn’t easy. But what if you had a really big detector for a long time? That’s what researchers did when they crunched 15 years’ worth of data from the NANOGrav data set. The ...

Giant waves of air rippling through the atmosphere might spin up or intensify tornadoes when they interact with powerful thunderstorms. One such wave rolling through a December 2000 line of storms in ...

The sky may have a unique look to it overhead of you in Michigan right now. The clouds are called gravity wave clouds, and don’t occur that often. The gravity wave clouds appear like ripples in the ...