Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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