Forget twisters. These storm chasers are after a sneakier hazard: hail. A team of about 70 researchers, armed with high-tech sensors and specially outfitted vehicles, set out across the nation this ...

For many book readers, the upcoming “Project Hail Mary” adaptation is one of the most anticipated films of 2026. The film follows a molecular biologist-turned middle school science teacher played by ...

Hail the size of grapefruit shattered car windows in Johnson City, Texas. In June, 2024, a storm chaser found a hailstone almost as big as a pineapple. Even larger hailstones have been documented in ...

When a thunderstorm rolls off the mountains and drops icy pellets on our car, we assume this is hail. That is not always the case. There are different forms of frozen precipitation, which include: ...

Shamrock, Texas — As severe storms once again soak, twist and pelt the nation's midsection, a team of dozens of scientists is driving into them to study one of the nation's costliest but ...

Ryan Gosling puts the “not” in “astronaut” in the first trailer for “Project Hail Mary,” Amazon MGM Studios’ adaptation of the Andy Weir novel of the same name. The film hails from “Jump Street” and ...

A team of researchers is spending 6 weeks in the Great Plains chasing hail. It's a first-of-its-kind giant science project that may help better forecast an underappreciated weather hazard that costs ...

LEVELLAND, Texas — Dozens of researchers are chasing, driving and running into storms to collect fresh hail, getting their car bodies and their own bodies dented in the name of science. They hope ...