Interesting facts you didn't know

In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation...

When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.

Jupiter's core is in fact made of a non-metal, but due to the immense pressure inside Jupiter the core has become a metal. This metal i...

There is a theory that our universe is nothing more than a holographic representation of the “Real” universe. That this “hologram” exists i...

People generally say there are 365 days in a year. By a year, I mean this is the time period it takes the earth to travel around the sun: 3...

Why astronauts crave Tabasco sauce.  In space, bodily fluids that would normally be drawn downwards instead spread out more uniformly throug...

Moon, takes same amount of time to spin about its own axis as it takes to complete an orbits the Earth. So, in the 27.32 days traveling ar...

Located 3.5 billion light years away, this black hole is SO massive that it weighs six times as much as the previous record-holder and is co...

The most dangerous asteroids, those capable of causing major regional or global disasters, usually impact the Earth only once every 100,000 ...

Based on Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, there are three possible shapes that the Universe may take: open, closed, and flat. Once a...

The most distant galaxy ever observed is estimated to be around 13,000,000,000 light-years away. Discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in...

The first millennium, 1 - 1000 AD, consisted of 365,250 days. Our current millennium, 1001 - 2000 AD, will consist of 365,237 days. The thir...

The Star Alpha Herculis is twenty five times larger than the circumference described by the earth's revolution around the sun. This mean...

The Sun loses up to a billion kilograms a second due to solar winds. Solar winds are charged particles that are ejected from the upper surf...

Did you know that we are moving through space at the rate of 530km a second. Our Galaxy – the Milky Way is spinning at a rate of 225 kilomet...

The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float. The actual density of Saturn is 0.6...