Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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 Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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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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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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