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Science & space fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about science & space. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

1,577 published reviews in this topic

PolitiFactScience & space

You can determine a bell pepper’s gender by its "bumps."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactScience & space

A Mars Rover photo captured by NASA shows a doorway, suggesting extraterrestrial life.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactScience & space

Aurora borealis sightings a “fabricated light show” created by a HAARP experiment.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactScience & space

“The Space Foundation has erased the honors previously bestowed on Yuri Gagarin, the first man to ever be in space. His name was stripped ‘in light of current events.’”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactScience & space

NASA study says snake plants can produce enough oxygen for humans to live in a sealed room.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactScience & space

Footage NASA shared from the DART spacecraft just before it crashed itself into an asteroid isn’t real.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgScience & space

Social media post shows “Most Detailed Image" of April 8 solar eclipse.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactScience & space

“Elon Musk unveils UFO fighter jet that defies physics.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactScience & space

The sun is in my eyes.

Publisher’s rating: True

Maldita.esScience & space

Han aparecido dos soles en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y Canadá, uno es el verdadero sol y el otro es la luna. Este fenómeno se conoce como Moon Hunters y solo ocurre cuando la Tierra cambia su eje.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactScience & space

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.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactScience & space

Expertos dicen que el eclipse solar del 8 de abril “será el eclipse más peligroso que ha habido, la guardia nacional se está preparando para este acontecimiento”.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactScience & space

“Sunflowers are turning away from the sun because that’s not the sun.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactScience & space

NASA is “shooting three rockets at three moons” on the day of the solar eclipse.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactScience & space

Buzz Aldrin’s comments during an interview with Conan O’Brien prove the moon landing was fake.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactScience & space

Electrically charged stones discovered in Congo.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactScience & space

Photo shows “Earth, Venus and Jupiter as seen from Mars.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactScience & space

“Marines are investigating 3 ancient pyramids discovered in Antarctica.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactScience & space

“North Korea confirms it has landed a man on the sun.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactScience & space

Astronaut Karen Nyberg filmed what “was supposedly a video from space” in front of a green screen.

Publisher’s rating: False