Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
    14
    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
    189
    Wow! Signal
    Wow! Signal
    In 1977, researchers detected a strong and unusual radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. It hasn't been detected since.
    38
    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
    236
    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
    32
    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
    216
    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
    159
    In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
    31