The polar vortex itself forms because of Mars’s tilted axis, which creates seasons much like Earth’s. Each northern winter, a ...

A rare glimpse into the wintry conditions of the Mars north polar vortex has shown that temperatures inside the vortex are ...

A rare glimpse into the wintry conditions of Mars's north polar vortex has shown that temperatures inside the vortex are far colder than outside, and ...

It's a term you hear every couple of winters, when we get stuck in the coldest of cold patterns – polar vortex. But what exactly is it and how does it impact our weather? The polar vortex is like a ...

Bitter cold is expected across much of the U.S. this weekend. But what do headlines mean when they say a "polar vortex cold snap" is on the way? The polar vortex is a regular feature of Earth's polar ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A wildfire camera caught the moments when a ...

At winter’s cruelest, the temperatures plunge well below zero, taking parts of the country into deep-freeze.. The only phenomenon frigid enough to generate that kind of chill is the polar vortex, of ...