​ Surprised Russian school kids discover Arctic island has vanished after comparing satellite images (Image Credit: Space.com) A group of school kids and college students discovered that a Russian island in the Arctic has recently vanished after comparing

​ The final supermoon of 2024 rises Nov. 15 as November’s Full Beaver Moon (Image Credit: Space.com) The last of four consecutive supermoons in 2024 rises this week. November’s Full Beaver Moon will rise on Friday (Nov. 15),

​ The sun’s poles may have powerful magnetic tornadoes (Image Credit: Space.com) The sun may have swirling polar vortices similar to those on Earth, but powered by a very different source, according to a new study.  Current observations

​ ‘Crumb trails’ of meteoroids could reveal potentially dangerous comets years before they reach Earth (Image Credit: Space.com) Comets that rarely swing past the sun could ram into our planet, but we could spot them using the “crumb”-like

​ Long ago, Voyager 2 might have caught Uranus at a bad time (Image Credit: Space.com) Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this probe flew