Space Facts for Kids

The Sun is incredibly loud, but we can't hear it because sound can't travel through the vacuum of space.

There is a giant cloud of alcohol in space called Sagittarius B2 — it's 150 light-years across.

Venus spins backwards compared to most planets — the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east there.

Uranus is tilted so far on its side that it basically rolls around the Sun like a ball.

Astronauts say that space smells like seared steak, gunpowder, and raspberries.

Pluto's surface area is smaller than Russia.

NASA confirmed there is water ice on the Moon, found in permanently shadowed craters near the poles.

A NASA spacesuit costs about $12 million, mostly because of the backpack life-support system.

Jupiter's moon Europa has a vast ocean beneath its icy surface that may contain more water than all of Earth's oceans.

A light-year is a measure of distance, not time — it's about 5.88 trillion miles.