Tag: Space and Science

Ten Interesting Facts About Asteroids You Can Tell Your Friends

Have you ever wondered where most asteroids come from of what they are made from?…

The Ten Largest Bodies in Our Own Solar System by Radius

From meteors to stars, planets to moons. This list includes the ten biggest bodies within…

The Top 10 Largest Planetary Moons in Our Solar System

While most of us can name a few moons located within our own solar system…

The Top 10 Closest Stars to Earth (Not Including the Sun)

Would you be able to name any of the ten closest stars to earth (not…

The Top 10 Brightest Stars as Seen From Earth

These 10 bright lights are the ten brightest stars as seen from Earth and apart…

The Top 10 Largest Exceptional Asteroids Located Within Our Solar System

While tracking an ‘exceptional’ asteroid is pretty easy these days making a guess on their…

The First Ten People to Have Gone Into Space

Here is an interesting fact for you. At the time of writing, this only 536…

The First Ten People to Become Moonwalkers and Their EVA

(*EVA = Extravehicular activity – ie. time spent out of the lunar module on the…

Ten of the Worlds First Women in Space

I bet you can name at least one of the first ten people in space….

Ten Top 10 Largest Telescopes in the Entire World

While most newly build telescopes are smaller ones that are used in universities and research…

The Top 10 Largest Known Asteroids in the Solar System

Some are so big they are bigger than some countries and some could fit in…

Top 10 Mohs Scale Degrees of Hardness

The Mohs scale of mineral hardness was once upon a time little more than a…

The Top 10 Heaviest Elements in the Entire Known Universe

This base list of ten elements are the “heaviest” by its density of each cubic…

Top 10 Most Common and Abundant Elements in the Earth’s Crust

While most of us know that the most abundant minerals in the earth’s crust are…

Top 10 Highest and Lowest Layers of Clouds

From the ground, it looks like all clouds are roughly the same height. But there…

The Top 10 Principal Components of the Air We Breath

If you think the air we breathe these days is just nitrogen & oxygen you…