Whirlpools appear when fast-flowing water interacts with other currents or obstacles. Faced with a worthy opponent, the water ...

Amazing new photos from NASA's Cassini probe orbiting Saturn reveal a dizzying glimpse into a monster storm raging on the ringed planet's north pole.

Above: A Von Karman vortex street downwind of the Canary Island chain in the eastern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa on Feb. 27, 2015. Image credit: NASA Worldview. Editor's note ...

You’ve probably heard how toilet water swirls differently depending on what hemisphere you’re in, but do you really know why that happens? Luckily, two YouTube channels … ...

A lobe of the polar vortex swirls into the United States. (Video: ... The extreme temperatures could test the country’s stretched power grid and cause water pipes to burst.

Antarctica’s polar vortex could be about to split in two for the first time in more than 20 years after a series of sudden spikes in stratospheric temperatures.