Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Juno’s latest discoveries have pulled back the veil on Jupiter’s harsh atmosphere and the fiery volcanic world of Io. The ...

Researchers have observed mysterious "dark ovals," each roughly the size of the Earth, appearing on the polar regions of Jupiter on the ... forms due to swirling vortex dynamics rather than ...

A flurry of new discoveries from NASA's Juno mission Jupiter have taken us beneath the surface of the gas giant's volcanic ...

Why has April in Chicago been cold so far? A big factor is the disruptions in the polar vortex, even as the “polar vortex season” is winding down, according to NBC 5 Meteorologist Kevin Jeanes.

Which is what’s happened with the large dark spots suddenly visible on Jupiter’s surface. The “mysterious dark ovals” are ...

Accuweather Senior Meteorologist Paul Pastelok says the March polar vortex disruption is one of the largest meteorologists have seen in a long time. A polar vortex is a large area of low pressure ...

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Extraterrestrial vortices take many forms. Jupiter’s look like pans of sweet rolls. A hexagon bounds Saturn’s northern polar vortex. And Martian vortices act similar to Earth’s, spinning to ...