NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter’s north pole, taken during the spacecraft’s first flyby of the planet with its instruments switched on. The images show ...

Scientists have detected what may be the largest hole in the ozone layer ever recorded over the North Pole. The ozone hole covers an area roughly three times the size of Greenland, scientists from ...

The thick ice that covers the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole has melted, leaving a mile-wide stretch of water at the top of the world. North Pole visitor Malcolm McKenna, a paleontologist at the ...

Just as they approached the North Pole, they spotted a mile-wide hole in the ice. “It was totally unexpected,” Harvard oceanographer James McCarthy, one of the scientists on board, later told ...

The southern dark oval (SUDO) tends to pop up in the same place near Jupiter’s south pole, and it can grow to an enormous size, roughly as big as North America. Why the southern hemisphere ...

Not only has the data helped develop a new model to better understand the fast-moving jet stream that encircles Jupiter's cyclone-festooned north pole, it's also revealed for the first time the ...

Jupiter and Saturn have always been some of ... with eight cyclones circling a central cyclone at the north pole. At the south pole, five cyclones were doing the same thing.

Jupiter’s magnetic field is very similar to Earth's but 20 times stronger. There is a dipole, which means that there is a north and a south, so the magnetic field lines connect one pole to the ...

An amateur astronomer in Australia saw something remarkable the other night: a hole the size of the Pacific Ocean near Jupiter's south pole. Anthony Wesley wasn't expecting much as he was looking ...