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A massive tornado that swept across the Kentucky counties left a trail of destruction in its path, marked by a physical scar visible from space.
A storm scientist explains what's been driving deadly tornado outbreaks and how tornado season has been changing.
On May 16, 2025, an EF-4 tornado tore across three Kentucky counties, causing catastrophic damage and leaving 20 people dead. It tore bark from trees, lifted houses from their foundations, and ...
Space Tornado! Cosmic Front Packs a Punch. News. By Ker Than published 12 January 2006 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.
Rather than using the fictional Dorothy device to measure these tornadoes from the inside, astronomers used the sensitive, high-resolution instruments at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...
New satellite images show the path of destruction a tornado carved as it tore through Dallas on Sunday evening. The tornadoes that ripped through the Dallas area will be the costliest tornado ...
Scientists say they’ve found “space tornadoes” swirling in the center of our Milky Way galaxy.. While the galaxy’s center, including the supermassive black hole Sgr A*, is known to be ...
NASA's first space shuttle external tank to stand on a launch pad was destroyed on Tuesday (Feb. 7) when a tornado impacted the New Orleans facility where it was built 40 years ago. The external ...
Dorothy's tornado was nothing compared to the giant swirls of plasma that storm in outer space. Space tornadoes are funnels of hot charged particles around the Earth that flow at more than a ...
Meanwhile, a tornado warning was issued south of St. Cloud, Minnesota, just before 4:15 p.m. Central time on Monday afternoon. The warning urged people to take shelter.