Latest Fact-Checks In Space

Clear
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 15, 2023 una publicación en Facebook
Hay “restos de una nave nodriza gigante ocultada por la NASA” en Marte.
False
By Maria Briceño • April 18, 2023
Viral image
Viral image
stated on March 11, 2023 an Instagram post
Elon Musk tweeted, “The world is flat.”
False
March 13, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 6, 2023 a Facebook post
“The moon is a habitable place.”
Pants on Fire!
By Madison Czopek • March 6, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 5, 2023 a Facebook post
“There are no humans” on the International Space Station.
False
February 9, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on February 5, 2023 an Instagram post
“‘Satellites’ are on balloons and not in space.”
Pants on Fire!
By Sara Swann • February 7, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on January 23, 2023 an Instagram post
“NASA stopped exploring the ocean.”
Pants on Fire!
January 30, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on November 28, 2022 an Instagram post
No NASA Challenger rocket blew up with people on it.
Pants on Fire!
By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 30, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on October 25, 2022 Instagram post
“If outer space was a vacuum, astronauts would train in vacuum chambers. Not in swimming pools. Outer Space is a hoax.”
Pants on Fire!
November 1, 2022
Viral image
Viral image
stated on October 23, 2022 an Instagram post
“Wikileaks releases moon landing cut scenes filmed in the Nevada desert.”
False
October 25, 2022
Viral image
Viral image
stated on October 4, 2022 an Instagram post
Buzz Aldrin admitted that the moon landing “didn’t happen.”
False
October 6, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on September 26, 2022 an image shared on Instagram
Footage NASA shared from the DART spacecraft just before it crashed itself into an asteroid isn’t real.
False
By Madison Czopek • September 29, 2022
Viral image
Viral image
stated on September 13, 2022 an Instagram post
“The sun is not 93 million miles away … it is local and under a firmament dome.”
Pants on Fire!
September 14, 2022
Viral image
Viral image
stated on September 11, 2022 an Instagram post
“North Korea confirms it has landed a man on the sun.”
Pants on Fire!
September 12, 2022
Viral image
Viral image
stated on September 6, 2022 an Instagram post
Video proves “space is fake.”
Pants on Fire!
September 9, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on September 6, 2022 an Instagram post
Astronaut Karen Nyberg filmed what “was supposedly a video from space” in front of a green screen.
False
September 9, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 29, 2022 a Facebook post
"The Sun is out of place, the Moon is out of place and the stars are out of place. The compasses are off" because of a shift in the Earth’s poles.
Pants on Fire!
By Grace Abels • August 3, 2022
Viral image
Viral image
stated on July 20, 2022 an Instagram post
NASA photos of the moon and Earth show that “space is fake.”
Pants on Fire!
By Grace Abels • July 28, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 12, 2022 a Facebook post
Claims the James Webb Space Telescope is “fakery they got for the masses”
Pants on Fire!
By Andy Nguyen • July 18, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 28, 2022 a Facebook post
An image shows a “UFO photographed on June 21, 2014 by the pilot from the cockpit of an F-16 military plane flying near Lackland Air Force Base of the United States located in San Antonio, Texas.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • June 30, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 13, 2022 a Facebook post
A Mars Rover photo captured by NASA shows a doorway, suggesting extraterrestrial life.
False
By Samantha Putterman • May 23, 2022
Previous Next