Photographer Ben Hartley recounts the moment he risked his life to capture some of the world's bravest surfers riding some of the world's biggest waves in Nazaré, Portugal.

Big-wave surfing has wowed awe-struck onlookers from all over the world, more so in the digital age where some of the biggest breaks on earth are tempted and captured in video or photos. And the ...

The tiny fluctuations we perceive as chorus waves are produced by plasma instabilities, unstable distributions of charged particles flowing along Earth’s magnetic field lines. Because they can ...

Chorus waves, quick bursts of energy known to occur relatively close to Earth and around other planets, were found in an unexpected part of the magnetosphere, according to a new study Sara Hashemi ...

On December 23 2024, 23-year-old Santa Cruz surfer Alo Slebir rode a wave at Mavericks surf break that has been estimated by some at 108 feet tall, a potential new world record. With the end of ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Chorus waves detected at 100,000 miles challenge magnetosphere NASA's satellites reveal risks these waves pose to spacecraft Findings call for improved solar plasma monitoring to ensure mission ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

The waves are a valuable tool for modeling various phenomena in the solar system, including particle acceleration and wave-particle interactions. "Our earlier work focused on how KAWs contribute ...

The current holder of the surfing “the largest wave (unlimited) — male” is Sebastian Steudtner of Germany, who broke the previous record in October 2020 at Praia do Norte in Nazaré ...

While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone as the biggest land animal on earth, and that is the African elephant.