The world is wonderfully weird.
Small discoveries worth sharing. Every fact comes with a source for the extra curious.
20 little discoveries
A spin longer than a year
Venus takes longer to rotate once than to orbit the Sun.
Get curious Space02The hottest planet is not the closest
Venus is hotter at its surface than Mercury.
Get curious Space03A planet without a moon
Venus has no natural moon.
Get curious Space04Our eight planetary neighbors
Our solar system has eight planets.
Get curious Space05The rocky inner team
The four planets nearest the Sun are rocky worlds.
Get curious Space06Our very own star
The Sun is a star about 4.5 billion years old.
Get curious Space07A hundred Earths across
The Sun is roughly 100 times wider than Earth.
Get curious Our planet08Earth wins the rocky size contest
Earth is the largest of the four terrestrial planets.
Get curious Our planet09A year has a little extra
Earth takes about 365.25 days to orbit the Sun.
Get curious Our planet10The ocean holds almost all our water
About 97 percent of Earth’s water is in the ocean.
Get curious Our planet11A planet mostly covered in ocean
Ocean covers more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface.
Get curious Nature12That coral is an animal
Corals are animals, even though they can look like plants or rocks.
Get curious Nature13White does not always mean dead
A bleached coral is stressed, but it is not necessarily dead.
Get curious Our planet14The sky helps move the sea
The Moon and Sun both help cause ocean tides.
Get curious Nature15Three hearts, one octopus
An octopus has three hearts.
Get curious Space16Mars has a pair of moons
Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos.
Get curious Space17The red planet is rusty
Iron minerals help give Mars its reddish appearance.
Get curious Space18Rings made of countless pieces
Saturn’s rings are mostly pieces of ice, with rock and dust.
Get curious Space19A very speedy year
A year on Mercury lasts just 88 Earth days.
Get curious Space20A year beyond a lifetime
Neptune needs about 165 Earth years to orbit the Sun.
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