Space Facts

Black holes don't suck things in any more than an equivalent star would.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a storm bigger than Earth that has raged for centuries.

The footprints astronauts left on the Moon could last for millions of years.

There are likely more stars in the observable universe than grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches.

A teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh billions of tons.

The largest known volcano in the solar system is on Mars, not Earth.

Saturn's rings span hundreds of thousands of kilometers but are often less than a kilometer thick.

The Sun makes up about 99.8% of all the mass in the solar system.

Sunlight takes about eight minutes to reach Earth.

A day on Venus is longer than its year.