A vast universe of brain teasers awaits you and your friends, and family! These space riddles with answers will put your mind in orbit and leave you breathless as you try to piece together clues and solutions to these wonderful enigmas. Join this cosmic adventure filled with puzzling clues and red herrings, and explore the universe using nothing but your mind and analytical skills. The biggest clue to solving all of these riddles is that they are related to outer space in one way or another, but is that really helpful? The universe hides so many mysteries, stars, planets, moons, black holes, and who knows what else… Could it also be hiding the answers to these riddles?
Space Riddles
We are all around, yet to us you are half blind. Sunlight makes us invisible, and difficult to find.
Answer: Stars
Scythe of darkness, Shadow’s light. Guiding eye of thirteenth sight.
Answer: Moon
I am the third from a sparkle bright, I thrive throughout the day and night. Deep in the path of a cow's white drink. I've had thousands of millions of years to think. But one of my creatures is killing me. And so the question I ask to thee is: who am I?
Answer: Earth
A man was just doing his job when his suit was torn. Why did he die three minutes later?
Answer: He was an astronaut on a space walk, doing repairs.
I'm a spinning city of stars, some might say I'm rather large. What am I?
Answer: Galaxy
I am the monster you cannot see, swallowing light so greedily. What am I?
Answer: Black Hole
It comes only before, it comes only after. It rises only in darkness, but also rises in light. It is always the same, yet always different. What is it?
Answer: The moon.
Though invisible, I keep things near, a force that shapes the cosmic sphere. What am I?
Answer: Gravity
I am the hole in the night, the ever-watchful eye. I return in a cycle, to enlighten the sky.
Answer: Moon
An orbiting lab where humans can dwell, in the vacuum of space we do quite well. What am I?
Answer: Space Station
I'm white, I'm round, but not always around. Sometimes you see me, sometimes you don't.
Answer: Moon
I'm the birthplace of stars, a cosmic bloom; I also make for a nebulous room. What am I?
Answer: Nebula
Which one of Santa's reindeer can you see in outer space?
Answer: Comet
From outer space I might hail, in stories, I'm often quite the tale. What am I?
Answer: Alien
Pregnant every time you see her, yet she never will give birth.
Answer: Moon
My children are near and far. No matter that I know where they are. The gift I give them makes their day. But if I were gone they would wander away.
Answer: Sun
I'm a wanderer among the stars, canvas for myths, gods, and wars. What am I?
Answer: Planet
Inside a great blue castle lives a shy young maid. She blushes in the morning and comes not out at night.
Answer: Sun
Racing through the heavens, shedding debris in my wake, when I hit your world's umbrella, a fiery show I make. What am I?
Answer: Meteor
At dusk, I come without being fetched. At dawn, I disappear without being stolen. I'm a poet's tears and a sailor's guide. What am I?
Answer: They're in the night sky Stars
My love, when I gaze on thy beautiful face, careering along, yet always in place, the thought has often come into my mind... If I ever shall see thy glorious behind.
Answer: Moon
Always old, sometimes new. Never sad, sometimes blue. Never empty, sometimes full. Never pushes, always pulls.
Answer: Moon
It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. What is it?
Answer: The moon
What surrounds the world, yet dwells within a thimble?
Answer: Space
What goes through the door without pinching itself? What sits on the stove without burning itself? What sits on the table and is not ashamed?
Answer: Sun
I am a god, I am a planet, and I can measure the temperature. What am I?
Answer: Mercury
Were you able to solve all these space riddles, or did challenging them feel like rocket science, leaving your brain still trying to recover from their trickery? That’s the fun of these cosmic riddles — they make you think long and hard, only to hit you with a surprise answer that is more than likely to prompt heartfelt laughter! And why not share all this fun with the ones you love the most? Many of these clever challenges are also suitable riddles for kids and families. Besides being funny, they also have an important educational component that puts your knowledge of the universe to the test and expands it at the same time. Enjoy this exploratory mission through these space enigmas!
Last Updated: Friday, December 20, 2024
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