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A rare hurricane that raged high above Earth's North Pole in 2014 packed a surprising punch, and may be even stranger than scientists first thought. The phenomenon, called a "space hurricane," ...

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 ...

The European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, captured this image of a gigantic coronal hole hovering over the sun's north pole on July 18, 2013, at 9:06 a.m. EDT.