That’s because the velocity of water waves depends on acceleration due to gravity. “If you do a sudden jolt, you change the effective gravity, and the velocity of the wave changes,” says Fort.

This 2023 astronaut photo shows a pair of perfectly aligned "wave clouds" rippling above the Crozet Islands in the Southern ...

Ripples in sand can be formed by wind or waves. The ripples I observed on the beach looked to be mostly formed by water, since they were being uncovered by the outgoing tide.

Gravitational waves "ride" the fabric of space the same way water waves "ride" the surface of the water; if you have a rock fall into a river, the ripples don't just move radially outward; they ...

But new images from the Curiosity rover, released today (Feb. 6), show windswept stretches of sand that look like waves cresting on a body of water. The repeating ripples create a hypnotic pattern ...

Water is also made of molecules. But during a ripple, the water molecules don’t move away from the rock, as you might expect. They actually move up and down.

Scientists have identified “wave ripples” on Mars, shaped by water and wind approximately 3.7 billion years ago. These ...

With water, a supercool transition occurs when the substance gets "stuck" in its liquid phase, ... triggering the launch of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time.

Excited scientists announced Thursday they have detected gravitational waves — distortions in space-time — from the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion years ago. It's a discovery that ...

Because space-time is flexible, you can make it wave. Just like snapping a bedsheet, if you move enough matter around fast enough, a wave of distorted space-time will ripple outward into the universe.