A new animation using data from ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft shows that the double eye of the giant vortex at Venus’s South pole has disappeared. Results of a study that shows the complex, variable ...

What do smoke rings, tornadoes and the Great Red Spot of Jupiter have in common? They are all examples of vortices, regions within a fluid (liquid, gas or plasma) where the flow spins around an ...

A breakthrough in the control of a type of particle known as the polariton has created a highly specialised form of rotation. A breakthrough in the control of a type of particle known as the polariton ...

Spanish astronomers with the UPV/EHU's Planetary Science Group have published, online in the journal Nature Geoscience, a study of the atmospheric vortex of the south pole of Venus, a huge whirlwind ...