Interesting Facts

People used to think that Kangchenjunga was the world’s highest mountain. Then the great Trgnometrical survey of India was completed, which...

Geysers are jets of boiling water and steam that erupt from beneath the ground where water is heated by volcanic activity. USA has more gey...

The USSR ’s sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite to enter Earth’s orbit. This 83.6kg metal sphere transmitted signals back to earth ...

No human has yet set foot on any space body other than earth and the moon. But unmanned spacecrafts have taken photographs, made scienti...

Earth’s moon is the most familiar and also the largest satellite in relation to its planet in the entire solar system. It is the first body ...

Astronomers think they have discovered another planet. In 2005, Palomar Observatory , USA ,spotted a rocky object in the most distant part...

The belief that no. 13 is unlucky comes from time immemorial. The Romans believed that no 13 was a symbol of death and destruction. The Nors...

In space, light travels at a speed of 299,792.46 km a second. When we look at even the nearest star, what we are seeing is light that left i...

Stars seems to twinkle because we see them through the layers of earth’s atmosphere. As light passes through these layers, it is distorted s...

The names of the months in English came from Latin words. January Januarius – this month was dedicated to janus. The rom...