Learn how a new model shows how waves form on alien oceans, revealing that gentle winds could create massive swells on Titan, while even hurricane-force winds barely stir lava seas on distant worlds.

Waves are one of the most familiar features of Earth’s oceans, shaped by wind, gravity, and the properties of water itself. Yet beyond our planet, where seas may be made of methane and gravity pulls ...

The same gentle wind that would create small ripples on a lake in Earth (right) would make large waves on Saturn’s largest moon Titan (left). In these renderings, the marker is measured in meters. On ...

Gravity wave clouds form in wave-like patterns in sky, oftentimes resembling ripples in a body of water from a rock being thrown. These types of clouds are created from air in the atmosphere coming ...

The ocean is an intriguing and mysterious place. For every new species of sea creature we find, there are an untold number of others waiting to be discovered. But it isn't just sea life that has kept ...

A size comparison of the "Draupner Wave" to 3 school buses stacked horizontally on top of one another. On New Year’s Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil ...