For this all-citizen and private polar launch, it will be the first time that the quartet will be in space, and it will be the first time any human has done a 90-degree circularized orbit ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Fram2 mission will be the first human spaceflight around Earth’s polar regions, as the commander shares with Spectrum News what this new adventure means to him.

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

Explore the amazing discovery of Jupiter’s swirling dark vortices and their connection to its powerful magnetic field and ...

The polar vortex slid toward Europe in recent weeks, ushering in cooler temperatures to portions of Canada A significant disruption to the polar vortex over far Northern Canada will keep the ...

A significant disruption to the polar vortex over far Northern Canada will keep the pattern’s influence locked in our neck of the woods like a houseguest overstaying their welcome. Even as the world ...

Saturn’s largest moon might not be the barren world it seems. Beneath Titan’s icy crust lies a vast ocean of liquid water—possibly as deep as 300 miles. While its surface hosts lakes of ...

When the polar vortex begins to wobble and allows arctic air to spill south into northern Illinois in January, we usually end up with dangerously-cold air around Chicago. When it happens in April ...

This may be the case with Saturn's vortexes, too, NASA said. "If the Saturnian polar vortex indeed has an analogous structure to terrestrial hurricanes, the circulation should be downward in the ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a strange, alien world. Covered in rivers and lakes of liquid methane, icy boulders and dunes of soot-like "sand," its topography has long fascinated scientists ...

Don't put away those winter coats just yet. An April cold snap is forecast for much of the eastern half of the U.S. early next week, forecasters said, with freezes likely across portions of the ...

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe.