Even when you feel completely still, you are always moving. Earth spins on its axis and travels around the Sun, carrying you along with it.

At about 5 km/h, time dilation is far too small for any person to notice. Only extremely accurate atomic clocks can detect it.

During a sprint, a cheetah uses its tail like a steering wheel to stay balanced while making sharp turns at high speed.

A car on a motorway travels about the length of an Olympic swimming pool in one second.

On a long straight, a Formula 1 car can go faster than 350 km/h.

Passenger planes usually fly at around 900 km/h.

Sound cannot travel through empty space. It needs something to move through, such as air, water or metal.

People at the equator move with Earth’s rotation much faster than people in Poland, even though nobody can feel it.

The SR-71 was so fast that most missiles fired at it could not catch up. Pilots often escaped danger simply by flying faster.

Astronauts on the ISS get about 45 minutes of daylight and 45 minutes of darkness before seeing another sunrise.

Apollo capsules returning from the Moon travelled at nearly 40,000 km/h, faster than any other crewed vehicle in history.

Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 and is still moving away from the Sun. It has already travelled beyond the main edge of the Solar System.

While you read this fact, Earth will move several hundred kilometres along its orbit, even though none of us can feel it.

Meteors can move at more than 70 kilometres per second, faster than you can blink.

To reach its record speed, Parker Solar Probe uses Venus’s gravity again and again like a giant space slingshot.

The solar wind can travel at speeds from about 1 to 3 million kilometres per hour.

In 1859, a powerful coronal mass ejection caused the Carrington Event. Auroras were seen across much of the world, and telegraph systems stopped working in many countries.

Today’s technology cannot reach 1% of the speed of light. Even our fastest space probes are more than 15 times slower.

At this speed, a spacecraft would travel from Earth to the Moon in about six seconds.

At this speed, a clock on the spacecraft would begin to fall clearly behind a clock left on Earth.

At this speed, the stars would seem to move toward the direction of travel. More and more of the sky would appear packed into the view ahead.

The jet does not come from inside the black hole. It is made by matter spinning just outside it before some of that matter falls past the event horizon.

In particle accelerators, electrons can move so close to the speed of light that the difference is hard to write without many decimal places.

The speed of light is the same for every observer, no matter how fast they are moving. This is one of the strangest discoveries in modern physics.