The sudden winter chill came thanks to the polar vortex, an area of low pressure and cold air in the Arctic near the North Pole, that has taken hold over parts of the country, meteorologists say.

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"polar vortex" usually refers to the gigantic circular upper air weather pattern in the Arctic region, enveloping the North ...

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

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A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

As a result, the daily average temperatures at the north pole were more than 20 degrees Celsius above average ... Convection occurs when air close to the ground is heated by the warm surface of the ...

Temperatures at the North Pole breached 32 F (0 C), the melting point of ice, on Sunday (Feb. 2) after climbing 36 F above the region's daily average temperature recorded between 1991 to 2020, the ...

According to NASA’s analysis, the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, has a more than one percent chance of colliding with Earth on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2032 —meaning there is still about a 99% chance that it ...

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...