The Fastest thing In the Universe

The Earth spins at the speed of 1,036 miles per hour (1,667 kilometres per hour).

• The tides can slow the Earth's rotation speed and add about 2.3 milliseconds to our day every century.
• Weather systems can also change the Earth's rotation.

Mercury's highly eccentric, egg-shaped orbit takes the planet as close as 29 million miles (47 million kilometers) and as far as 43 million miles (70 million kilometers) from the Sun. It speeds around the Sun every 88 days, traveling through space at nearly 29 miles (47 kilometers) per second, fa...

UY Scuti is the largest star in the observable Universe with a mass coming in at around 1,700 times larger than the mass of the sun. 

UY Scuti is a specific type of star known as a hypergiant which are usually short lived and extremely rare because of the fact that they lose a large portion...