To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of ...

Despite being involved in various space exploration efforts at various levels, Europe only has a bunch of homemade rockets it can rely on to advance its goals beyond the borders of our planet. The ...

From hundreds of miles above Earth, the brutal polar vortex that gripped the Great Lakes turned into something strangely beautiful. A satellite view captured ghostly spirals of ice curling across Lake ...

A 2025 satellite image shows a series of ghostly ice swirls sculpted on the surface of Lake Michigan by strong winds during an extreme cold snap that covered Chicago in a blanket of snow.

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. When you ...