How high you can jump on other worlds is affected by many factors, here we estimate jump heights based on each world's gravity.

If you were lucky enough to go to the moon, you’d be able to jump six times as high there as you can here on Earth. Try it: jump up and imagine you’re on the moon. Six times further up you’d go ...

Gravity depends upon mass. The more mass, the more pull. This affects how much you weigh as well as how high you can jump on a given planet, moon or asteroid. Earth is 81 times as massive as the moon.

How high could I jump on the moon? – Miles, aged five, London, UK. If you were lucky enough to go to the moon, you’d be able to jump six times as high there as you can here on Earth.

Imagine you’re lucky enough to travel all the way to the Moon, and you’re bouncing around in your space suit, exploring its surface. How high could you jump? That’s what Miles, aged nine ...

Astronomers built an amazing interactive browser app that shows you how high you can hop on other planets, moons, and even comets.

Astronomers built an amazing interactive browser app that shows you how high you can jump on other planets, moons, and comets.

Starting closer to home, jumping on the Moon would lift you 2.7 meters (9 feet) easily, as its gravity is about 1/6th of Earth's. On Venus, you can jump slightly higher than on Earth, as its ...

Gravity depends upon mass. The more mass, the more pull. This affects how much you weigh as well as how high you can jump on a given planet, moon or asteroid. Earth is 81 times as massive as the moon.