Space & Astronomy Facts

Did you know that when a full moon occurs at the beginning of september it's called a Corn Moon?

NASA successfully changed an asteroid's path in 2022, showing we can redirect potentially hazardous space rocks.

Red Planet Day is celebrated every year on November 28 and honors NASA's Mariner 4 mission, the first successful flyby of Mars.

The Apollo 17 astronauts could taste the Moon's fine dust. They called it the "Apollo aroma." It smelled like burnt gunpowder.

A blue moon isn't actually that rare. According to NASA, one can typically be seen every two and a half years.

Earth lies within the Goldilocks zone - a region at just the right distance from the Sun for water to exist in its liquid state.

Many Flat Earthers believe that we're kept from falling off the world's edge by a wall of ice.

Did you know that the James Webb Space Telescope needs to stay below −370 °F to function correctly?

Did you know that the Earth's rotation has slowed down about 6 hours in the past 2,740 years?

Because our months are based on the lunar cycles, calendars would be completely different without the moon.

In 1957 Laika the dog became the first animal to orbit the Earth aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft.

Astronauts can see the sunrise and sunset sixteen times in 24 hours aboard the International Space Station.