The United States Air Force (USAF) is taking flying lessons from geese and spiny lobsters. This may seem like the mother of all bureaucratic errors, but there’s actually some pretty solid science ...

Late last year, astronomers detected the sixth known dark vortex on Neptune. This time, however, scientists were able to chronicle the formation of this swirling storm over the course of several years ...

After seeing several dark vortexes appear in the ice giant's clouds over the decades, scientists have finally been able to watch one form, and it was a big one. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Recent research demonstrated that, although most wing shapes used today create turbulent wake vortices, wing geometrics can be designed to reduce or eliminate wingtip vortices almost entirely. In the ...

ESA’s Venus Express data undoubtedly confirm for the first time the presence of a huge ‘double-eye’ atmospheric vortex at the planet’s south pole. This striking result comes from analysis of the data ...