Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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.
    48
    The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
    145
    It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
    569
    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
    149
    A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
    5
    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
    160
    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
    221
    Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
    4