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See Mercury's frigid north pole in extraordinary new images from the BepiColombo spacecraft
A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the ...
The science behind Connecticut’s arctic blast: Polar vortex and radiational cooling
An Arctic blast that began in the northern plains on Saturday spread bitter cold from the Rockies through the East Coast and ...
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A major winter storm threatens parts of the central U.S. with snow, ice and even blizzards
In the two states where blizzard warnings were in effect ... The polar vortex of ultra-cold air usually stays penned up around the North Pole, spinning like a top. But sometimes it escapes ...
Why Is It So Cold in the South If the Planet Is Warming? Here’s What We Know.
A mass of air called the polar vortex has escaped the Arctic and plunged southward. Some scientists see the fingerprints of climate change.
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Blizzard and freeze warnings for millions across 30 US states as major snow Storm Blair causes travel chaos
Sixty-three million Americans are under blizzard warnings as the country ... Meteorologists said a polar vortex spinning across from the North Pole via the jet stream is causing the intense ...