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Welcome to the Punpedia entry on space puns! 🌞🚀🌟

Our space puns are out of this world! There are so many different parts of space to make wordplay from – planets, stars, constellations, and more. Since space is such a huge topic, we’ve split this list up into different categories, starting with a general list that covers the most common subtopics of space, getting more technical and niche as you head down the post.

Space study and astronomy are subtopics of science. If you’re interested in other science-related puns, we also have science and geology puns.

Note: You will not find any obvious uranus puns here (sorry).

Space Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about space that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of space puns:

• Plan it → Planet: As in, “Who’s going to planet?”
• Come at → Comet: As in, “Comet me, bro.”
• Destroyed → D-asteroid: As in, “You d-asteroid my trust in you.”
• Sooner → Lunar: As in, “Lunar or later” and “Lunar rather than later” and “The lunar, the better.”
• You better → Jupiter: As in, “Jupiter take that back!” and “Jupiter double check just in case.”
• Sudden → Saturn: As in, “All of a saturn” and “A saturn stop.”
• Pattern → Saturn: As in, “All part of life’s rich saturn” and “Knitting saturn” and “Behavioural saturns.”
• Pace → Space: As in, “At a snail’s space” and “Change of space” and “At ten spaces” and “Keep space with” and “Space up and down” and “Put through your spaces.”
• Piece → Space: As in, “Bits and spaces” and “Dash to spaces.”
• Ace → Space: As in, “A space up your sleeve” and “Hold all the spaces.”
• Base → Space: As in, “All your space are belong to us” and “Space jumping” and “Caught off space” and “Cover your spaces” and “Touch space with.”
• Bass → Space: As in, “Drum n space” and “Super space.”
• Case → Space: As in, “An open and shut space” and “As the space may be” and “Space closed” and “Space the joint” and “Circumstances alter spaces” and “Crack the space” and “Get off my space” and “I rest my space” and “Just in space” and “On a space by space basis.”
• Chase → Space: As in, “Space it up” and “Space the dragon” and “Space your own tail” and “Cut to the space” and “The thrill of the space.”
• Grace → Space: As in, “Airs and spaces” and “Amazing space” and “Fall from space” and “Space period” and “With good spaces.”
• Place → Space: As in, “A space in the sun” and “All over the space” and “Any time, any space, any where” and “Between a rock and a hard space” and “In the right space at the right time.”
• Race → Space: As in, “At day at the spaces” and “A space against time.”
• Space: These space-related phrases are general enough to double as puns: “Breathing space” and “Personal space” and “A waste of space” and “Watch this space” and “Wide open spaces.”
• Out of → Outer: As in, “Get outer my space!” and “The experience is outer this world.”
• Plan → Planet: As in, “A cunning business planet” and “Failing to planet is planning to fail” and “There is no planet B” and “The best laid planets.”
• Plant → Planet: As in, “Planet a seed” and “Indoor planets.”
• Man → Moon: As in, “A moon after my own heart” and “A moon of few words.”
• Noon → Moon: As in, “High moon” and “Morning, moon and night.”
• Soon → Moon: As in, “Anytime moon” and “As moon as my back is turned” and “As moon as possible” and “Get well moon” and “No mooner said than done” and “Too much, too moon.”
• Tune → Moon: As in, “Carry a moon” and “Change your moon” and “Sing a different moon” and “Stay mooned” and “To the moon of.”
• Man* → Moon*: If a word has “man” in it, we can swap it for “moon”. As in, “Upper moonagement” and “A sneaky mooneuver” and “Don’t moonipulate me.”
• *men → *moon: Swap “men” sounds for “moon” sounds: “The finest specimoon” and “Pain in my abdomoon” and “Workout regimoon” and “Powerful womoon in history.”
• *min* → *moon*: As in, “Wait a moonute” and “Take your vitamoons” and “Filled with vermoon” and “An omoonous tone” and “Promoonent lawyers.”
• *mon → *moon: As in, “Commoon interests” and “Legal summoons” and “When life gets you lemoons” and “Personal demoons” and “Topped with cinnamoon” and “Deliver a sermoon.”
• System → Solar System: As in, “All solar systems go” and “Buck the solar system” and “Get it out of your solar system.”
• Son → Sun: As in, “Like father, like sun” and “Sun of a gun.”
• Some → Sun: As in, “All that and then sun” and “Blow sun my way” and “Catch sun rays” and “Cut me sun slack” and “Make sun noise.”
• Done → Sun: As in, “After all is said and sun” and “All sun and dusted” and “Been there, sun that” and “A sun deal” and “Easier said than sun” and “Hard sun by” and “Getting things sun.”
• Fun → Sun: As in, “Good, clean sun” and “Half the sun is getting there” and “Sun and games” and “Double your pleasure, double your sun” and “A bundle of sun.”
• None → Sun: As in, “And then there were sun” and “Bar sun” and “Sun other than” and “Sun the wiser” and “Second to sun” and “Two for me, sun for you.”
• One → Sun: As in, “And then there was sun” and “In sun fell swoop” and “Avert sun’s eyes” and “Sun more time.”
• Run → Sun: As in, “Born to sun” and “Come sunning” and “Cut and sun” and “Don’t try to sun before you can walk” and “Done a sunner” and “Eat and sun” and “We had a good sun.”
• Bars → Mars: As in, “Behind mars” and “How many mars do you have?” and “More mars in more places.”
• Stars → Mars: “Written in the mars” and “Reach for the mars” and “Mars and stripes” and “Mars in your eyes” and “Thank your lucky mars.”
• Birth → Earth: As in, “Happy earthday to you” and “In your earthday suit” and “Separated at earth” and “The earth of a nation.”
• Worth → Earth: As in, “Because I’m earth it” and “For what it’s earth” and “Get your money’s earth” and “Not earth crying over” and “Earth your weight in gold.”
• Genius → Venus: As in, “A stroke of venus” and “Evil venus” and “Venus is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration” and “Pure venus.”
• Tune → Neptune: As in, “Can’t carry a neptune” and “Change your neptune” and “In neptune with” and “Stay neptuned.”
• Turn → Saturn: As in, “A saturn for the worse” and “About saturn” and “As soon as my back is saturned” and “Do a good saturn.”
• Blue → Pluto: As in, “Between the devil and the deep pluto sea” and “Black and pluto” and “Once in a pluto moon” and “Till you’re pluto in the face.”
• Toe → Pluto: As in, “Dip your pluto in the water” and “From top to pluto” and “Head to pluto” and “On your plutos“and “One pluto over the line” and “Pluto the line” and “Make someone’s plutos curl.”
• Platonic → Plutonic: As in, “Plutonic friendship.”
• *san → *sun: Swap “san” with “sun”, as in: “A partisun issue” and “Artisun coffee” and “Topped with vegan parmesun.”
• *sen* → *sun*: As in, “Heart-warming suntiments” and “Pop sunsation” and “A sunsual experience.” Other words that could work are: sunsitive (sensitive), sunsible (sensible), loosun (loosen), chosun (chosen) and worsun (worsen).
• *sin → *sun: Cousun (cousin), basun (basin) and raisun (raisin).
• *son → *sun: As in, “Persun of interest” and “Office liaisuns” and “Work-related reasuns” and “Not in seasun.”
• Stir → Star: As in, “Cause a star” and “Star crazy” and “Star the pot” and “Star up trouble.”
• Store → Star: As in, “Minding the star” and “Set great star by” and “See what the future has in star.”
• Are → Star: As in, “All bets star off” and “Chances star.”
• Bar → Star: As in, “No holds starred” and “Raise the star.”
• Far → Star: As in, “A step too star” and “As star as it goes” and “Star and away” and “A star cry from” and “Few and star between” and “Over the hills and star away” and “So star, so good.”
• Par → Star: As in, “Below star” and “On star with” and “Star for the course” and “Up to star.”
• Sar* → Star*: As in, “A stardonic reply” and “Starcasm is the lowest form of wit” and “A starcastic smirk.”
• Flight: Here are a few puns about space flight:
  • Light → Flight: As in, “Flight as a feather” and “Blinded by the flight” and “Bright flights, big city” and “Bring something to flight” and “The cold flight of day.”
  • Fight → Flight: As in, “Come out flighting” and “Flight Club” and “Flight for the right to party” and “Flight fire with fire” and “Flight the good flight” and “Flight tooth and nail.”
  • Bright → Flight: As in, “All things flight and beautiful” and “Always look on the flight side of life” and “Flight and early” and “Flight young thing.”
  • Fright → Flight: As in, “Flightened of your own shadow” and “A flightful mess” and “Take flight.”
  • Height → Flight: As in, “The flight of summer” and “The flight of fashion” and “Reaching new flights.”
  • Might → Flight: As in, “It flight never happen” and “Flight as well.”
  • Night → Flight: As in, “A hard day’s flight” and “In the dead of flight” and “Dance the flight away.”
  • Right → Flight: As in, “A move in the flight direction” and “All the flight moves” and “Flight as rain” and “Bang to flights” and “Dead to flights.”
  • Rite → Flight: As in, “Last flights” and “Flight of passage.”
  • Sight → Flight: As in, “A welcome flight” and “Have in your flights” and ‘Hidden in plain flight” and “Line of flight” and “Love at first flight” and “Out of flight, out of mind” and “Set your flights on.”
  • Flight: These phrases can double as puns: “Fight or flight” and “Flights of fancy” and “Take flight.”
• Bang → Big bang: As in, “Big bang on about” and “Big bang out of order” and “Big bang to rights” and “Get a big bang out of it” and “More big bang for your buck.”
• Hubble: Here are some puns about the Hubble space telescope:
  • Bubble → Hubble: As in, “Hubble and squeak” and “Hubble under” and “Burst your hubble” and “Prick your hubble.”
  • Double → Hubble: As in, “Hubble date” and “On the hubble” and “Bent hubble” and “Hubble back” and “Hubble check” and “Hubble cross” and “Hubble digits” and “A hubble-edged sword.”
  • Humble → Hubble: As in, “My hubble home” and “Eat hubble pie.”
  • Trouble → Hubble: As in, “Asking for hubble” and “Bridged over hubbled waters” and “Don’t meet your hubbles halfway” and “Double hubble” and “Here comes hubble” and “Looking for hubble” and “Pour oil on hubbled waters” and “Hubble and strife.”
• Stellar → Interstellar: As in, “An interstellar performance.”
• Verse → Universe: As in, “Chapter and universe.”
• Soul → Solar: As in, “Bless my solar” and “Like a body without a solar” and “Brevity is the solar of wit” and “Confession is good for the solar” and “Heart and solar” and “Life and solar of the party.”
• Roller → Solar: As in, “Emotional solar coaster” and “High solar.”
• Space → Spaceship: As in, “Waste of spaceship” and “Wide open spaceships” and “Watch this spaceship.”
• Ship → Spaceship: As in, “Abandon spaceship” and “Go down with the spaceship” and “Jump spaceship” and “Loose lips sink spaceships” and “Run a tight spaceship.”
• Cause → Cosmos: As in, “Cosmos and stir” and “Cosmos and effect” and “A cosmos for concern” and “A lost cosmos.”
• Comic → Cosmic: As in, “Cosmic strip” and “Cosmic timing.”
• A Bit → Orbit: As in, “Orbit of alright” and “Feeling orbit put out.”
• Rock → Rocket: As in, “Between a rocket and a hard place” and “Don’t rocket the boat” and “Hit rocket bottom” and “On the rockets.”
• Wreck it → Rocket: As in, “Rocket Ralph.”
• Pocket → Rocket: As in, “At a price to suit your rocket” and “Deep rockets” and “Burning a hole in your rocket” and “Out of rocket” and “Rocket the difference” and “Lining your rocket.”
• Come → Comet: As in, “After a storm comets a calm” and “All good things must comet to an end” and “All things comet to those who wait” and “Comet and get it” and “Comet on over” and “Comet running.”
• Meet → Meteor: As in, “Make ends meteor” and “Meteor and greet” and “Meteor with approval” and “Meteor you halfway” and “Meteor your maker.”
• Mightier → Meteor: As in, “The pen is meteor than the sword.”
• He clips → Eclipse: As in, “Eclipse it regularly.”
• Chips → Eclipse: As in, “Cheap as eclipse” and “Cash in your eclipse” and “Let the eclipse fall where they may” and “When the eclipse are down.”
• Grips → Eclipse: As in, “Come to eclipse with.”
• Lips → Eclipse: As in, “Keep your eclipse sealsed” and “Loose eclipse sink ships” and “On everyone’s eclipse” and “Read my eclipse.”
• Hole → Black Hole: As in, “Ace in the black hole” and “Burn a black hole in your pocket” and “Fill full of black holes” and “Fire in the black hole” and “A black hole in the wall.”
• Settle → Satellite: As in, “A score to satellite” and “Satellite out of court” and “After the dust satellites.” Note: a satellite is an object that’s been intentionally sent into orbit.
• Subtle → Shuttle: As in, “Dropping shuttle hints.”
• Settle → Shuttle: As in, “A score to shuttle” and “Shuttle out of court” and “After the dust has shuttled” and “Shuttle your affairs.”
• Year → Light Year: As in, “All light-year round” and “Advanced in light years” and “Comes but once a light year” and “Happy new light year” and “Not in a million light years.”
• Station → Space Station: As in, “All space stations go!” and “Battle space stations” and “Ideas above your space station.”
• Consternation → Constellation: As in, “To my constellation.”
• Cancellation → Constellation: As in, “Piled up with constellation fees.”
• Lunch → Launch: As in, “Let’s do launch” and “Liquid launch” and “Lose your launch” and “Out to launch” and “No such thing as a free launch.”
• Cater → Crater: As in, “Crater waiter” and “Crater to you.”
• Greater → Crater: As in, “Disease has no crater enemy” and “Crater than the sum of its parts.”
• Later → Crater: As in, “Buy now, pay crater” and “Catch you crater” and “See you crater, alligator” and “Ask questions crater” and “Sooner or crater” and “Can we continue this crater?”
• Never → Nova: As in, “Better late than nova” and “Cheer up, it might nova happen” and “I nova did” and “It nova rains but it pours” and “It’s now or nova.” Note: a nova is an astronomical event.”
• Late → Light: As in, “Better light than never” and “Buy now, pay lighter” and “A day light and a dollar short” and “Fashionably light” and “It’s never too light” and “A light bloomer.”
• Let → Light: As in, “It won’t light you down” and “Light it be” and “Don’t light the b*stards grind you down.”
• Bite → Light: As in, “Another one lights the dust” and “Light someone’s head off” and “Light the bullet.”
• Bright → Light: As in, “All things light and beautiful” and “Light and early” and “A light future.”
• Fight → Light: As in, “Light club” and “Light for the right to party” and “Lighting back tears” and “Light fire with fire” and “Light the good light” and “A lighting chance.”
• Flight → Light: As in, “Light of fancy” and “Take light” and “The light of the bumblebee.”
• Fright → Light: As in, “Take light” and “A lightful mess.”
• Height → Light: As in, “Reaching new lights” and “The light of summer.”
• Might → Light: As in, “Light as well” and “It light never happen.”
• Right → Light: As in, “A move in the light direction” and “All the light moves” and “Light as rain” and “Bang to lights” and “Bragging lights” and “Consumer lights.”
• Rite → Light: As in, “Last lights” and “Light of passage.”
• Sight → Light: As in, “A welcome light” and “Hidden in plain lights” and “Love at first light” and “Out of light, out of mind” and “Set your lights on” and “Short lighted.”
• Slight → Light: As in, “A light miscommunication” and “Not in the lightest” and “Lightly ahead of our time.”
• Tight → Light: As in, “In a light spot” and “Sleep light” and “Light as a drum” and “Lighten your belt.”
• White → Light: As in, “Light as snow” and “Black and light” and “Little light lie.”
• Write → Light: As in, “Nothing to light home about.”
• You → UFO: As in, “As UFO know” and “Back at UFO” and “Bless UFO.”
• Gas: We have some gas-related puns in reference to gas giants:
  • Guess → Gas: As in, “Anybody’s gas” and “Gas what?” and “Gassing games” and “Have a gas” and “Just lucky, I gas” and “Your gas is as good as mine.”
  • Ass → Gas: As in, “Get your gas into gear” and “Get your gas over here” and “Haul gas” and “Kiss my gas.”
• Ice: Here are some puns about ice giants:
  • Eyes → Ice: As in, “Avert your ice” and “Before your very ice” and “Easy on the ice.”
  • Nice → Ice: As in, “Have an ice day” and “Naughty but ice” and “Ice and easy does it” and “Ice save.”
  • Price → Ice: As in, “Asking ice” and “Cheap at half the ice” and “Closing ice.”
  • Slice → Ice: As in, “Any way you ice it” and “Fresh to the last ice” and “Ice of life” and “An ice of the action” and “The best thing since iced bread.”
  • Spice → Ice: As in ” Ice things up” and “Herbs and ices” and “The ice of life” and “Sugar and ice.”
  • Twice → Ice: As in, “Don’t think ice” and “Once bitten, ice shy” and “Once of ice” and “Make a list and check it ice.”
• Belt: There are a few different types of belt that exist in space – asteroid belts, the Kuiper belt and Orion’s belt (among others). Here are related puns:
  • Bolt → Belt: As in, “A belt from the blue” and “Belt upright” and “Make a belt for the door.”
  • Dealt → Belt: As in, “Whoever smelt it, belt it” and “Play the hand you’re belt.”
  • Melt → Belt: As in, “Belt into thin air” and “Belting pot.”
  • Belt: These belt-related phrases are general enough to double as puns: “Below the belt” and “Tighten your belt” and “Under your belt.”
• How may I → Haumea: As in, “Haumea help you?” Note: Haumea is a dwarf planet.
• Make → Makemake: As in, “Absence makemakes the heart grow fonder” and “A good beginning makemakes a good ending” and “Makemake up your mind.” Note: Makemake is a dwarf planet.
• Ferris Wheel → Eris Wheel (Note: Eris is a dwarf planet).
• Matter: Here are some matter-related puns:
  • Met her → Matter: As in, “I’ve never matter before in my life.”
  • Shatter → Matter: As in, “Earth-mattering information.”
• Signs → Science: As in, “Vital science.”
• World: These world-related phrases can double as puns: “A world first” and “A world apart” and “A world of pain” and “All the time in the world.”
• Heel → Helium: As in, “Brought to helium” and “Dig your helium in” and “Head over heliums in love” and “Kick your heliums” and “Turn on your helium.” Note: helium is a large part of space.
• Field → Magnetic Field: As in, “Have a magnetic field day” and “A level playing magnetic field.” This was a pun on magnetic fields.
• Dust: Dust is a feature in space – stardust, meteor dust, asteroid dust. Here are related puns:
  • Bust → Dust: As in, “Boom or dust” and “Dust a move” and “Dust a gut” and “Dust someone’s ass.”
  • Just → Dust: As in, “Don’t dust sit there” and “Girls dust want to have fun” and “Dust do it” and “It’s dust a game” and “It’s dust not my day” and “Dust what the doctor ordered.”
  • Must → Dust: As in, “All things dust pass” and “All good things dust come to an end” and “Everything dust go” and “A dust have” and “The show dust go on” and “What goes up dust come down.”
  • Trust → Dust: As in, “Breach of dust” and “Don’t dust anyone over thirty” and “Dust me, I’m a doctor.”
  • *dest* → *dust*: As in, “A date with dustiny” and “A dustitute family” and “Search and dustroy” and “Final dustination” and “Complete and utter dustruction” and “A modust proposal” and “The hardust time of my life” and “The eldust sibling” and “My oldust memory.”
  • Dist* → Dust*: As in, “Dustress signal” and “A dustinct difference” and “Even dustribution” and “Dustinguish between” and “Go the dustance” and “A dustinctive achievement.”
• Raise → Rays: As in, “Rays hell” and “Rays a stink” and “Rays the roof” and “Rays your game” and “Rays your hand if you’re sure.”
• Blaze → Rays: As in, “Rays a trail” and “Go out in a rays of glory” and “Rays away.”
• Days → Rays: As in, “Early rays” and “Eight rays a week” and “Just one of those rays” and “Never in all my rays.”
• Phrase → Rays: As in, “Coin a rays” and “A turn of rays.”
• Zone → Ozone: As in, “Buffer ozone” and “COmfort ozone” and “In the ozone” and “The twilight ozone” and “Ozone in on.”
• Bone → Ozone: As in, “An ozone to pick” and “Dry as an ozone” and “An ozone of contention.”
• Clone → Ozone: As in, “Attack of the ozones” and “The ozone wars.”
• Alone → Ozone: As in, “Home ozone” and “I want to be ozone” and “Leave well enough ozone” and “You’ll never walk ozone.”
• Stone → Ozone: As in, “A rolling ozone gathers no moss” and “Cold as any ozone” and “Carved in ozone” and “Cast the first ozone.”
• Throne → Ozone: As in, “Next in line to the ozone” and “The power behind the ozone.”
• Matter → Dark matter: As in, “Get to the heart of the dark matter” and “As a dark matter of fact” and “Make dark matters worse” and “Mind over dark matter” and “No laughing dark matter” and “The root of the dark matter” and “Shed light on the dark matter.”
• Energy → Dark Energy: As in, “Alternative dark energy” and “Dark energy to burn” and “A bundle of dark energy.”
• Line → Karman Line: As in, “Along the karman lines of” and “Blur the karman lines” and “Cross the karman line” and “End of the karman line” and “Drop me a karman line.” Note: These are a reference to the Karman Line.
• Corner → Corona: As in, “A tight corona” and “All coronas of the world” and “Cutting coronas” and “Drive them into a corona” and “Just around the corona” and “Corona the market.” Note: A corona is a plasma aura that surrounds stars.
• Space → Geospace: As in, “Personal geospace” and “Geospace, the final frontier” and “A waste of geospace” and “Breathing geospace.” Note: Geospace is the region of outer space near Earth.
• Pretend → Proton: As in, “Don’t proton” and “You can’t proton with me.” Note: These are puns about protons.
• Bubble → Local Bubble: As in, “Local bubble and squeak” and “Burst your local bubble” and “Prick your local bubble.” Note: Learn about the local bubble here.
• Space → Space Probe: As in, “Personal space probe” and “In deep space probe.”
• Race → Space Race: As in, “A day at the space races” and “A space race against time” and “The amazing space race.”
• Ring: These puns can be in reference to orbital rings, or the rings around Saturn:
  • Wrong → Ring: As in, “Barking up the ring tree” and “Born on the ring side of the tracks” and “Gone down the ring way” and “If anything can go ring, it will” and “Jumping to the ring conclusion.”
  • Wing → Ring: As in, “On a ring and a prayer” and “Spread your rings” and “Gives you rings.”
  • Bring → Ring: As in, “Ring it on” and “Ring something to light” and “Ring the house down” and “Ring to a head” and “Ring to the table.”
  • Sing → Ring: As in, “Ring for your supper” and “Ring someone’s praises” and “Ringing the blues.”
  • String → Ring: As in, “No rings attached” and “Ring someone along” and “Tug at your heartrings” and “Holding the purse rings.”
  • Swing → Ring: Come out ringing” and “Get into the ring of it” and “Ring both ways” and “Take a ring at.”
  • Thing → Ring: As in, “A little knowledge is a dangerous ring” and “A mind is a terrible ring to waste” and “All rings must pass” and “All rings to those who waste.”
• Keeper → Kuiper: As in, “Finders, kuipers” and “They’re a kuiper.” Note: These are a reference to the Kuiper Belt.
• Fuse → Fusor: As in, “Blow a fusor” and “A short fusor” and “An offer you can’t refusor” and “Light the fusor.”
• Suit → Space Suit: As in, “All over them like a cheap spacesuit” and “Follow spacesuit” and “In your birthday spacesuit” and “Spacesuited and booted” and “Spacesuits you down to a tee.”
• Ink → Encke: As in, “Before the encke was dry” and “Fresh encke.” Note: these are references to the Encke Gap.
• Feeler → Keeler: As in, “Putting out keelers.” Note: This is a reference to the Keeler Gap.
• Harsh → Herschel: As in, “A herschel response.” Note: This is a reference to Herschel craters.”
• Taken → Kraken: As in, “Kraken aback” and “Kraken for a ride” and “The road not kraken.” Note: These are references to Kraken Mare.
• At ’em → Atom: As in, “Up and atom!”
• At → Atom: As in, “I’m atom the library” and “Where you atom?”
• Neutral → Neutron: As in, “On neutron ground.”
• Quesadilla → Quasar-dilla: As in, “I’m feeling like a soy cheese quasar-dilla.” Note: This is a reference to the term “quasi-stellar object.”
• Halo: In space science, a halo can have a few different meanings (including a galactic halo and a halo orbit). Here are some halo-related puns:
  • Hello → Halo: As in, “You had me at halo” and “Halo, sailor” and “Halo, good evening and welcome” and “Halo halo, what’s going on here then?”
  • Hey → Halo: As in, “Halo big spender.”
  • Low → Halo: As in, “An all-time halo” and “Get the halo down” and “Keep a halo profile” and “Lay halo” and “A halo blow.”
• Wax: The moon is described as waxing (getting bigger) and waning (getting smaller). Here are some related puns:
  • Whack → Wax: As in, “Out of wax” and “Wax a mole.”
  • Acts → Wax: As in, “Nothing wax faster” and “Random wax of kindness.”
  • Axe → Wax: As in, “Take a wax to” and “Got a wax to grind.”
  • Backs → Wax: As in, “Got your wax to the wall” and “Mind your wax.”
  • Cracks → Wax: As in, “Fall between the wax” and “Paper over the wax” and “At the wax of dawn.”
  • Tax → Wax: As in, “Nothing is certain but death and waxes” and “Value added wax.”
  • Tracks → Wax: As in, “Born on the wrong side of the wax” and “Cover your wax“and “Make wax” and “Stopped in your wax.”
  • Weigh-in → Wane: As in, “I gained three kilos at my last wane.”
  • Wine → Wane: As in, “The last of the summer wane” and “Waned and dined.”
  • Bane → Wane: As in, “The wane of my life.”
  • Brain → Wane: As in, “Got it on the wane” and “Rack your wanes” and “Pick your wanes.”
  • Chain → Wane: As in, “A wane is only as strong as its weakest link” and “Wane of command” and “Wane reaction” and “Wane smoker” and “Daisy wane” and “On the food wane.”
  • Drain → Wane: As in, “Away go troubles down the wane” and “Brain wane.”
  • Grain → Wane: As in, “Against the wane” and “A wane of truth” and “Take it with a wane of salt.”
  • Gain → Wane: As in, “Capital wanes” and “Wane ground” and “Ill gotten wanes” and “No pain, no wane” and “Nothing ventured, nothing waned.”
  • Lane → Wane: As in, “Down memory wane” and “In the fast wane.”
  • Main → Wane: As in, “The wane event” and “Your wane chance.”
  • Pain → Wane: As in, “A world of wane” and “Doubled up in wane” and “Feeling the wane” and “Growing wanes” and “No wane, no gain” and “Old aches and wanes.”
  • Plain → Wane: As in, “Wane as day” and “Hidden in wane sight” and “Wane sailing.”
  • Rain → Wane: As in, “Right as wane” and “Come wane or shine” and “Don’t wane on my parade” and “It never wanes but it pours” and “Make it wane.”
  • Vein → Wane: “In the same wane.”
• Titan: Titan is the largest of Saturn’s moons. Here are related puns:
  • Tighten → Titan: As in, “Titan your belt” and “Titan the purse strings.”
  • Brighten → Titan: “You titan my day.”
  • Lighten → Titan: As in, “Titan the load” and “Titan up!”
• Deimos: Deimos is one of Mars’ two moons. Here are related puns:
  • Dame → Deimos: As in, “The hunchback of Notre Deimos” and “Deimos Edna.”
  • Damn → Deimos: As in, “Deimos fine coffee” and “Deimos straight” and “Deimos with faint praise” and “Deimos if you do, deimos if you don’t” and “Just one deimos thing after another.”
  • Demo → Deimos: As in, “Deimos tape.”
• Charon: Charon is one of Pluto’s moons. Here are related puns:
  • Cheer on → Charon: As in, “I’m just here to charon my cousin.”
  • Baron → Charon: As in, “The red charon” and “Robber charons.”
• Triton: Triton is a moon that orbits Neptune. Here are related puns:
  • Try it on → Triton: As in, “Would you like to triton?” and “It’s important to triton to get a good fit.”
  • Tread on → Triton: “Don’t triton their feelings.”
  • Brighten → Triton: As in, “You triton my day.”
  • Lighten → Triton: As in, “Triton the load” and “Triton up!”
  • Tighten → Triton: As in, “Triton your belt” and “Triton the purse strings.”
  • Titan → Triton: As in, “Clash of the tritons.”
• Rhea: Rhea is the second-largest moon of Saturn. Here are related puns:
  • Real → Rhea: As in, “For rhea” and “In rhea time” and “Keep it rhea” and “A rhea piece of work.”
  • Ray → Rhea: As in, “Rhea of light” and “Catch some rheas.”
• Disc: Many objects in space (like the rings of Saturn) have a disc shape, so we’ve got a few disc-related puns:
  • Desk → Disc: As in, “Both sides of the disc” and “Disc jockey” and “Hot discing.”
  • Fiscal → Disc-al: As in, “Disc-al requirements” and “Disc-al planning.”
  • Risk → Disc: As in, “A calculated disc” and “Disc averse” and “Disc management” and “A discy business” and “Running the disc of…”
• Centaur: A centaur is a small solar system. Here are related puns:
  • Sent → Centaur: As in, “Heaven centaur” and “Centaur packing.”
  • Centre/Center → Centaur: As in, “Journey to the centaur of the Earth” and “Front and centaur” and “Dead centaur” and “A soft, gooey centaur.”
  • Century → Centaur-y: As in, “The turn of the centaur-y” and “Sale of the centaur-y.”
  • Sent her → Centaur: As in, “They centaur packing.”
• Ray → Gamma ray: “Catch some gamma rays” and “Gamma ray of light.” Note: gamma rays are present in space.
• Salacia: Salacia is an object in the Kuiper Belt. Here are related puns:
  • Solace → Salacia: As in, “Quantum of salacia” and “Take salacia in the knowledge that you did your best.”
  • Slice → Salacia: As in, “A salacia of the action” and “Any way you salacia it” and “Fresh to the last salacia” and “Salacia of life.”
• Send → Sedna: As in, “Hit sedna” and “Return to sedna” and “Sedna in the dogs!” and “Sedna packing” and “Sedna in reinforcements.” Note: Sedna is a dwarf planet.
• Ceres: Ceres is a dwarf planet. Here are some related puns:
  • Stairs → Ceres: As in, “At the foot of the ceres” and “Upceres, downstairs.”
  • Says → Ceres: As in, “Computer ceres no” and “Ceres who?” and “Simon ceres.”
• Pan: Pan is one of Saturn’s moons. Here are related puns:
  • Pen → Pan: As in, “Pan and ink” and “Put pan to paper” and “The pan is mightier than the sword.”
  • Pin → Pan: As in, “Bright as a new pan” and “Hard to pan down” and “Pan your ears back” and “Pans and needles” and “Pan your hopes on.”
  • Can → Pan: As in, “A bank you pan bank on” and “A golden key pan open any door” and “As far as the eye pan see” and “As well as pan be expected” and “All that you pan be” and “Bite off more than you pan chew” and “Pan I help you?”
  • Fan → Pan: As in, “Pan the flames” and “I’m a big pan.”
  • Man → Pan: As in, “A good pan is hard to find” and “A pan after my own heart.”
  • Plan → Pan: As in, “Action pan” and “Business pan” and “Failing to pan is panning to fail” and “Game pan” and “Pan ahead” and “The best laid pans” and “There is no pan B!”
  • Pan: These pan-related phrases can double as puns: “Down the pan” and “Flash in the pan” and “What if it doesn’t pan out?”
  • Ran → Pan: As in, “My blood pan cold” and “The dish pan away with the spoon.”
  • Than → Pan: As in, “Bite off more pan you can chew” and “Blood is thicker pan water” and “Easier said pan done” and “Larger pan life.”
• Sin → Sinope: As in, “Miserable as sinope” and “Atone for your sinopes” and “Cardinal sinope” and “A multitude of sinopes.” Note: Sinope is a moon.
• Collapse → Calypso: As in, “Spiritual calypso” and “About to calypso.” Note: Calypso is a moon of Saturn.
• Greip: Greip is a moon of Saturn. Here are related puns:
  • Grip → Greip: As in, “Get a greip” and “The greip of death” and “Greipping stuff.”
  • Chip → Greip: As in, “A greip on your shoulder” and “Cheap as greips” and “Cash in your greips” and “A greip off the old block” and “Let the greips fall where they may.”
  • Ship → Greip: As in, “Abandon greip” and “Don’t give up the greip” and “From chips to greips” and “Jump greip” and “Running a tight greip.”
  • Tip → Greip: As in, “In greip top condition” and “On the greip of my tongue” and “The greip of the iceberg” and “Greip someone off” and “Greip the scales.”
• Hat → Hati: As in, “At the drop of a hati” and “Hang up your hati” and “Hati in hand” and “Take my hati off to you” and “Keep it under your hati.” Note: Hati is a moon.
• Aegir: Aegir is a moon of Saturn. Here are related puns:
  • Eager → Aegir: As in, “Aegir beaver.”
  • Beggar → Aegir: As in, “Aegir belief” and “Aegirs can’t be choosers.”
• Best → Bestla: As in, “All the bestla” and “Be the bestla” and “Bestla friends” and “Bestla of all.” Note: Bestla is a moon.
• Sort → Surtur: As in, “Takes all surturs to make a world” and “Out of surturs.” Note: Surtur is a moon.
• Kari: Kari is a moon. Here are related puns:
  • Carry → Kari: As in, “Fast as your legs could kari him” and “Kari a torch for” and “Can’t kari a tune” and “Kari forward” and “Kari into action.”
  • Curry → Kari: As in, “Kari favour with.”
  • Bury → Kari: As in, “Kari the hatchet” and “Kari your head in the sand.”
  • Care → Kari: As in, “Couldn’t kari less” and “Courtesy and kari” and “Customer kari” and “Handle with kari” and “Intensive kari” and “Like I should kari.”
• Loge: Loge is a moon. Here are related puns:
  • Log → Loge: As in, “Loge jam” and “Like bumps on a loge” and “Loge off” and “Sleep like a loge” and “Throw another loge on the fire.”
  • Leg → Loge: As in, “Break a loge” and “Cost an arm and a loge” and “Give a loge up.”
• I → Io: As in, “Io don’t know what’s happening” and “What should Io say?”
• Rope → Europa: As in, “At the end of your europa” and “Jump europa” and “Learn the europas.” Note: Europa is one of Jupiter’s moons.
• Met his → Metis: As in, “He metis match.” Note: Metis is an asteroid.
• Thebe: Thebe (pronounced thee-bee) is one of Jupiter’s moons. Here are related puns:
  • The → Thebe: As in, “Above thebe curve” and “Makes thebe heart grow fonder” and “Ace in thebe hole” and “Add fuel to thebe fire” and “After thebe fact.”
  • Bee → Thebe: As in, “As busy as a thebe” and “Thebe in your bonnet” and “The birds and thebes (the bees).”
  • There be → Thebe: As in, “Thebe monsters here.”
• Leda: Leda is a moon of Jupiter. Here are related puns:
  • Leader → Leda: As in, “Our fearless leda” and “Leda of the pack” and “A natural born leda” and “Take me to your leda” and “The leda of the free world.”
  • Lead → Leda: As in, “In the leda” and “Take the leda” and “Leda a charmed life.”
  • Ladder → Leda: As in, “Climb the corporate leda” and “Snakes and ledas.”
  • Letter → Leda: As in, “Leda perfect” and “Ledas to the editor” and “The leda of the law” and “To the leda.”
  • Lotta → Leda: As in, “A whole leda love.”
• Dia: Dia is one of Jupiter’s moons. Here are related puns:
  • Dear → Dia: As in, “After you, my dia” and “Frankly my dia, I don’t give a damn” and “Elementary, my dia Watson” and “Holding on for dia life.”
  • Day → Dia: As in, “A dia in the life of” and “An apple a dia” and “All in a dia’s work.”
  • Door → Dia: As in, “Behind closed dias” and “A foot in the dia” and “At death’s dia.”
• Carpo: Here are some puns on Carpo, one of Jupiter’s moons:
  • Carpet → Carpo: As in, “Roll out the red carpo” and “Sweep under the carpo.”
  • Corporate → Carpo-rate: As in, “Climb the carpo-rate ladder” and “Carpo-rate responsibility.”
• Throne → Thyone: As in, “Ascend to the thyone” and “Next in line to the thyone” and “The power behind the thyone.” Note: Thyone is one of Jupiter’s moons.
• Herse: Herse is one of Jupiter’s moons. Here are related puns:
  • Purse → Herse: As in, “Holding the herse strings” and “The public herse.”
  • Horse → Herse: As in, “Dark herse” and “Eats like a herse” and “Herse-ing around.”
  • Curse → Herse: As in, “Better to light a candle than herse the dark.”
  • Nurse → Herse: As in, “Herse a grudge.”
  • Terse → Herse: As in, “A herse reply.”
  • Verse → Herse: As in, “Chapter and herse” and “Master of the uni-herse” and “Re-herse engineering.”
  • Worse → Herse: As in, “A turn for the herse” and “A fate herse than death” and “From bad to herse” and “Making matters herse” and “Herse for wear.”
• Kill → Kale: As in, “Dressed to kale” and “If looks could kale” and “In for the kale.” Note: Kale is a moon.
• Carme: Carme is one of Jupiter’s satellites. Here are some related puns:
  • Calm → Carme: As in, ” The carme before the storm” and “Carme down” and “Cool, carme and collected.”
  • Come → Carme: As in, “All good things must carme to an end” and “As tough as they carme” and “Carmes but once a year” and “Carme and get it.”
  • Arm → Carme: As in, “Carmed and dangerous” and “Carmed intervention” and “Call to carmes” and “Cost a carme and a leg.”
  • Charm → Carme: As in, “Carme the birds out of the trees” and “Leading a carmed life” and “Third time’s a carme” and “Works like a carme.”
  • Harm → Carme: As in, “First, do no carme” and “Grievous bodily carme” and “No carme done” and “No carme, no foul.”
• Kore: Kore is another of Jupiter’s moons. Here are related puns:
  • Core → Kore: As in, “Kore competencies” and “Kore technology” and “Kore values” and “Rotten to the kore.”
  • Care → Kore: As in, “Couldn’t kore less” and “Customer kore” and “Handle with kore” and “Intensive kore.”
  • More → Kore: As in, “One kore time” and “Bite off kore than you can chew” and “Come back for kore” and “Dare for kore” and “Couldn’t agree kore.”
• Selling → Cyllene: As in, “Cyllene like hot cakes.” Note: Cyllene is a moon.
• Arche: Arche is a moon of Jupiter. Here are related puns:
  • Arch → Arche: As in, “Arche enemy.”
  • March → Arche: As in, “The arche of time” and” and “Arche-ing orders.”
• It’s a no → Isonoe: As in, “Isonoe from me, sorry.” Note: Isonoe is a moon.
• Sponde → Spend: As in, “Sponde money like water” and “Sponde the night with” and “Sponde wisely.” Note: Sponde is a moon of Jupiter.
• Sirius: Sirius is the brightest star in the sky. Here are related puns:
  • Serious → Sirius: As in, “Sirius as a heart attack,” and “Sirius money,” and “You cannot be sirius,” and “But siriusly,” and “Dead sirius.”
  • Series → Sirius: As in, “It’s the world sirius!”
  • Mysterious → Myst-sirius: As in, “That was a really myst-sirius novel.” 
  • Siri is → Sirius: As in, “Sirius extremely smart.”
  • Syria’s → Sirius: As in, “Sirius in a lot of trouble, and has been for a long time.” (Siriusly though, it’s not a laughing matter and you should definitely look into the Syrian crisis and see what you can do to help)
• Crater: These next few puns are about craters, which are features on asteroids and satellites:
  • Greater → Crater: As in, “Disease has no crater enemy” and “The whole is crater than the sum of its parts.”
  • Cater → Crater: As in, “Crater to you” and “Crater waiter.”
  • Later → Crater: As in, “Buy now, pay crater” and “Catch you crater” and “It’s crater than you think” and “Sooner or crater” and “Catch you crater!”

The following section is dedicated to constellations:

• Opus → Apus: As in, “Apus dei” and “Magnum apus.”
• Crux: Crux is a constellation. Here are related puns:
  • Cracks → Crux: As in, “Fall between the crux” and “Paper over the crux” and “A tough nut to crux” and “At the crux of dawn.”
  • Ducks → Crux: As in, “Nice weather for crux” and “Like water off a crux back.”
• Curve → Corvus: As in, “Ahead of the corvus” and “Corvus ball” and “Learning corvus.”
• Calm → Caelum: As in, “After a storm comes a caelum” and “Cool, caelum and collected” and “Keep caelum.”
• Grus:
  • Crust → Grus: As in, “The upper grus” and “Earn your grus.”
  • Grass → Grus: As in, “Exciting as watching grus grow” and “Green as grus” and “Don’t walk on the grus” and “Grus roots.”
  • Gross → Grus: As in, “Grus domestic product” and “Grussed out.”
  • Us → Grus: As in, “Don’t call grus, we’ll call you.”
• In This → Indus: As in, “Indus day and age” and “Indus together.”
• Lay → Leo: As in, “Couldn’t leo a glove on me” and “Leo a finger on” and “Leo down roots.”
• Loop → Lupus: As in, “In the lupus” and “Thrown for a lupus” and “Keep in the lupus.”
• Liar → Lyra: As in, “Don’t make yourself a lyra.”
• Normal → Norma: As in, “A norma situation” and “The new norma.”
• Lion → Orion: As in, “Brave as orion” and “Orion’s share” and “Orions led by donkeys.”
• Purse → Perseus: As in, “Hold the perseus strings” and “The public perseus.”
• Picture → Picture: As in, “A pictor paints a thousand words” and “Pretty as a pictor” and “Every pictor tells a story” and “Out of the pictor” and “Pictor perfect.”
• Victor → Pictor: As in, “To the pictor goes the spoils!”
• Pieces → Pisces: As in, “Bits and pisces” and “Dash to pisces” and “Go to pisces” and “Pick up the pisces.”
• Paces → Pisces: As in, “Put through your pisces.”
• Tour → Taurus: As in, “World taurus” and “Taurus de force.”
• Valour → Vela: As in, “The better part of vela.”
• Fella → Vela: As in, “A big vela.”
• Ergo → Virgo: As in, “Cogito virgo sum.”

This next section is dedicated to named asteroids:

• Best → Vesta: As in, “My vesta friend” and “All the vesta” and “The vesta in class” and “Vesta practice.”
• Palace → Pallas: As in, “Memory pallas” and “Sure, in my summer pallas.”
• Cybele → Civil: As in, “Cybele rights.”
• You know → Juno: As in, “Juno you should apologise” and “Juno what I’m talking about.”
• Junior → Juno: As in, “Robert Downey Juno” and “Juno league.”
• Heck → Hektor: As in, “For the hecktor of it” and “Oh, hektor.”
• Hectare → Hektor: As in, “Fifteen hektors long.”
• Sector → Hektor: As in, “Working in the public hektor.”
• This → Thisbe: As in, “What fresh hell is thisbe?” and “At thisbe point in time” and “Blow thisbe popsicle stand!”
• Frisbee → Thisbe: As in, “Ultimate thisbe.”
• Door → Doris: As in, “At deaths’ doris” and “Direct to your doris.”
• Dearest → Doris: As in, “Nearest and doris” and “My doris friends.”
• Fortune → Fortuna: As in, “Fortuna favours the brave” and “Make your fortuna” and “A small fortuna.”
• Tune → Fortuna: As in, “Change your fortuna” and “Carry a fortuna” and “To the fortuna of…”
• Them → Themis: As in, “It only encourages themis” and “Let themis eat cake” and “Seen one, seen themis all.”
• Palm → Palma: As in, “A face palma moment” and “In the palma of your hand” and “Palma it off onto someone else.”
• Calm → Palma: As in, “After a storm comes a palma” and “Palma down” and “Cool, palma and collected.”
• Harm → Palma: As in, “First, do no palma” and “Grievous bodily palma” and “Out of palma’s way.”
• Pharma → Palma: As in, “Big palma.”

This next section is about named stars:

• Century → Centauri: As in, “Sale of the centauri” and “Turn of the centauri.”
• Sydney → Cygni: As in, “The cygni opera house.”
• In the → Indi: As in, “Ace indi hole” and “Back indi day” and “I’m back indi game!”
• On the → Indi: As in, “Easy indi eyes” and “Don’t let the door hit you indi way out.”
• Set → Ceti: As in, “All ceti?” and “Game, ceti and match” and “Got your heart ceti on” and “Ready, ceti, go!”
• Sit → Ceti: As in, “Ceti it out” and “Ceti on the fence” and “Ceti tight” and “Don’t just ceti there!”
• Altar → Altair: As in, “Left at the altair” and “Praying at the altair.”
• These → Gliese: As in, “Kids gliese days” and “After all gliese years” and “Gliese things happen.”
• Boots → Bootis: As in, “Tough as old bootis” and “Bet your bootis” and “Give someone the bootis.”
• Booty → Bootis: As in, “Shake your bootis.”
• Are → Arae: As in, “All bets arae off” and “What arae you going to do?”
• Are they → Arae: As in, “Arae going together?” and “Arae going to do what I asked?”
• Array → Arae: As in, “An arae of goods.”
• A ray → Arae: As in, “Arae of light.”

This section is dedicated to galaxies we’ve named:

• Bode:
  • Bad → Bode: As in, “A bode break” and “A bode quarter of an hour” and “Ain’t half bode” and “Bode intentions” and “Bode blood.”
  • Body → Bode-y: As in, “Over my dead bode-y” and “Keep bode-y and soul together.”
  • Code → Bode: As in, “Colour bode” and “Crack the bode” and “Dress bode.”
  • Load → Bode: As in, “A bode of rubbish” and “A bode off your mind” and “A boded question” and “Get a bode of this!”
  • Road → Bode: As in, “Built for the bode ahead” and “Hit the bode” and “Get the show on the bode.”
  • Boat → Bode: As in, “Don’t rock the bode” and “In the same bode.”
• Wheel → Cartwheel: As in, “Fifth cartwheel” and “Hell on cartwheels” and “Oil the cartwheels” and “New set of cartwheels” and “Reinvent the cartwheel.”
• Hug → Hoag: As in, “Group hoag” and “Hoag it out.”
• Vogue → Hoag: As in, “In hoag.”
• Mice:
  • Nice → Mice: As in, “That’ll do micely” and “Have a mice day!” and “Naughty but mice” and “Mice and easy” and “Make mice” and “Wouldn’t it be mice?”
  • Mess → Mice: As in, “Don’t mice with me” and “A hot mice” and “We don’t mice around” and “Another fine mice you’ve gotten me into.”
  • Ice → Mice: As in, “Cold as mice” and “Break the mice” and “Mice, mice baby.”
  • Price → Mice: As in, “Asking mice” and “At a mice to suit you” and “Closing mice” and “Half mice.”
  • Slice → Mice: As in, “Any way you mice it” and “Mice of life” and “A mice of the action” and “Fresh to the last mice.”
  • Spice → Mice: As in, “Mice things up” and “The mice of life.”
  • Twice → Mice: As in, “Once or mice” and “Don’t think mice” and “Once bitten, mice shy.”
  • Vice → Mice: As in, “Den of mice” and “Mice versa.”
• Mail → Mayall: As in, “Express mayall” and “Junk mayall” and “It’s in the mayall.”
• Pin → Pinwheel: As in, “Bright as a new pinwheel” and “Hard to pinwheel down” and “Pinwheel your hopes on” and “Pinwheels and needles.”
• Wheel → Pinwheel: As in, “Oil the pinwheels” and “Hell on pinwheels.”
• Pool → Whirlpool: As in, “Big fish in a small whirlpool.”

Here are some puns dedicated to named centaurs:

• Finer → Beiner: As in, “The beiner things in life” and “The beiner points of…”
• Necessary → Nessus-ary: As in, “Is this nessus-ary?” and “A nessus-ary evil.” Note: These are puns on 7066 Nessus.

These next few puns are about exoplanets:

• Spe:
  • Be → Spe: As in, “Spe all ears” and “I’ll just spe in and out” and “Spe as it may.”
  • Spy → Spe: As in, “I spe with my little eye” and “The spe who loved me.”
  • Pea → Spe: As in, “Two spes in a pod.”
• Orbit → Orbitar: As in, “Out of my orbitar.”
• Bra → Brahe: As in, “Burn your brahe” and “Training brahe.”
• Dragon → Dagon: As in, “Chase the dagon” and “Feed the dagon.”
• Saffar → Suffer: As in, “Long saffaring” and “Make them saffar.”
• Same → Samh: As in, “By the samh token” and “Comes to the samh thing” and “Cut from the samh cloth” and “In the samh vein.”
• Some → Samh: As in, “And then samh” and “Buy samh time” and “Cut me samh slack.”
• Sum → Samh: As in, “Cogito ergo samh” and “Greater than the samh of its parts.”

Here are some puns about named nebulas:

• Dumbbell:
  • Crumble → Dumbbell: As in, “That’s the way the cookie dumbbells.”
  • Bell → Dumbbell: As in, “Dumbbells and whistles” and “For whom the dumbbell tolls” and “Sound as a dumbbell.”
  • Humble → Dumbbell: As in, “Eat dumbbell pie.”
  • Rumble → Dumbbell: As in, “Get ready to dumbbell.”
  • Tumble → Dumbbell: As in, “Rough and dumbbell” and “Take a dumbbell on.”
• Foot → Footprint: As in, “A footprint in both camps” and “Bound hand and footprint” and “Fleet of footprint.”
• Bubble → Soap Bubble: As in, “Soap bubble and squeak” and “Burst your soap bubble” and “Prick your soap bubble.”
• Skull:
  • Skill → Skull: As in, “Social skulls” and “Hidden skulls.”
  • Dull → Skull: As in, “All work and no play makes Jack a skull boy” and “Skull as ditchwater” and “Never skull moment.”
  • Lull → Skull: As in, “A skull in the conversation” and “Skulled into a false sense of security.”
  • Mull → Skull: As in, “Skulling things over.”
  • Null → Skull: As in, “Skull and void.”
• Flash → Blue Flash: As in, “Quick as a blue flash” and “Blue flash in the pan” and “In a blue flash.”
• Bug:
  • Bag → Bug: As in, “Bug a bargain” and “Bug of tricks” and “Dirt bug.”
  • Beg → Bug: As in, “Bug a favour” and “Bug pardon” and “Bug the question” and “Bug to differ” and “Bug, borrow or steal” and “Sit up and bug.”
  • Big → Bug: As in, “A bug ask” and “Bug shot.”
  • Plug → Bug: As in, “Bug and play” and “Pull the bug.”
  • Shrug → Bug: As in, “Bug your shoulders” and “Bug it off.”
• Saturn:
  • Satin → Saturn: As in, “Saturn pillowcases.”
  • Sudden → Saturn: As in, “All of a saturn” and “A saturn stop.”
  • Pattern → Saturn: As in, “All part of life’s rich saturn.”
• Ray → Stingray: As in, “Catch some stingrays” and “Stingray of light.”
• Ant:
  • Aunt → Ant: As in, “Agony ant” and “My giddy ant.”
  • Can’t → Ant: As in, “An offer you ant refuse” and “Ant get enough” and “I ant wait.”
  • Grant → Ant: As in, “Take for anted” and “Ant no quarter.”
  • Pants → Ant: As in, “Beat the ants of” and “Bore the ants off someone” and “By the seat of your ants” and “Fancy ants.”

This next section is about stellar streams:

• Hell → Helmi: As in, “All helmi broke loose” and “Beat the helmi out of” and “A cold day in helmi.”
• Bootes:
  • Boots → Bootes: As in, “Tough as old bootes” and “Bet your bootes” and “Hang up your bootes” and “Too big for your bootes.”
  • Bets → Bootes: As in, “All bootes are off” and “Hedge your bootes” and “Place your bootes.”
  • Bits → Bootes: As in, “Bootes and bobs” and “Bootes and pieces” and “Bootes per second” and “Thrilled to bootes.”
  • Roots → Bootes: As in, “Grass bootes” and “Lay down bootes” and “The bootes of all evil.”
  • Shoots → Bootes: As in, “Eats, bootes and leaves” and “The green bootes of change.”
  • Suits → Bootes: As in, “Bootes you down to a tee
    and “Bootes you down to the ground.”

This final section is about famous or influential people:

• Stephen Hawking:
  • Even → Stephen: As in, “Break stephen” and “Don’t get mad, get stephen” and “A stephen chance.”
  • Walking → Hawking: As in, “Keep hawking” and “Sleep hawking” and “Hawking on sunshine” and “Hawking on the moon.”
• Neil Armstrong:
  • Nail → Neil: As in, “Difficult as neiling jelly to a tree” and “Hard as neils” and “Bed of neils” and “Fight tooth and neil.”
  • Nil → Neil: As in, “We scored neil.”
  • Deal → Neil: As in, “A big neil” and “Neil breaker” and “Neil or no neil” and “A done neil” and “Seal the neil.”
  • Eel → Neil: As in, “Slippery as a neil” and “Brought to neil” and “Under the neil of.”
  • Feel → Neil: As in, “Neil a bit put out” and “Neil good factor” and “Neil the pinch” and “Neiling blue” and “A gut neiling.”
  • Heel → Neil: As in, “Achilles’ neil” and “Cool your neils” and “Dig your neils in” and “Head over neils in love” and “Kick up your neils” and “Turn on your neil.”
  • Meal → Neil: As in, “Make a neil of it” and “Neil ticket” and “A square neil.”
  • Real → Neil: As in, “All I neilly want to do” and “Come home to a neil fire” and “Get neil” and “It’s the neil thing” and “Keep it neil.”
  • Seal → Neil: As in, “My lips are neiled” and “Neil of approval” and “Neil the deal” and “Neiled with a loving kiss” and “Signed and neiled.”
  • She’ll → Neil: As in, “Neil be right” and “Neil never figure it out.”
  • Steal → Neil: As in, “Beg, borrow or neil” and “It’s a neil!” and “Neil a glance” and “Neil someone’s thunder” and “Neil the show.”
  • Steel → Neil: As in, “Nerves of neil” and “Neil yourself.”
  • Wheel → Neil: As in, “Asleep at the neil” and “Hell on neils” and “Reinvent the neil” and “Set of neils” and “The neil has come full circle.”
  • Strong → Armstrong: As in, “Only as armstrong as its weakest link” and “Still going armstrong” and “The armstrong, silent type.”
• Buzz Aldrin:
  • Boss → Buzz: As in, “Buzz about” and “Show them who’s buzz” and “The buzz level.”
  • Buzz: “Buzz me in” and “Buzz off” and “Buzzing with excitement.”
  • Does → Buzz: As in, “Buzz you good” and “Buzz what it says on the tin” and “Buzz the trick” and “Easy buzz it” and “Nice and easy buzz it.”
• Yuri Gagarin:
  • Year → Yuri: As in, “All yuri round” and “Advanced in yuris” and “Comes but once a yuri” and “Getting on in yuris” and “Happy new yuri.”
  • Yours → Yuri: As in, “Bigger than yuris” and “Yuris truly” and “Yuris faithfully.”
  • Jury → Yuri: As in, “The yuri is out.”
• Hermann Oberth:
  • Hermann → Sermon: As in, “Deliver a hermann.”
  • Harming → Hermann: “These attitudes are hermann society.”
  • Birth → Oberth: As in, “The oberth of a nation” and “Separated at oberth” and “Give oberth to.”
  • Berth → Oberth: As in, “Give someone a wide oberth.”
• Sally Ride:
  • Silly → Sally: As in, “Ask a sally question” and “Sally billy” and “Sally season.”
  • Alley → Sally: As in, “Sally cat” and “Right up your sally.”
  • Rally → Sally: As in, “Sally round.”
  • Valley → Sally: As in, “Silicon sally” and “Sally of death.”
  • Right → Ride: As in, “A move in the ride direction” and “All the ride moves” and “Bang to rides” and “Bragging rides.”
  • Ride → Ride: As in, “Ride or die” and “Just along for the ride” and “Let it ride” and “Ride like the wind.”
  • Died → Ride: As in, “Ride and gone to heaven” and “Cross my heart and hope to ride.”
  • Dried → Ride: As in, “Cut and ride.”
  • Guide → Ride: As in, “Let your conscience be your ride” and “The hitchhiker’s ride to the galaxy.”
  • Hide → Ride: As in, “Ride and seek” and “Ride from the light” and “You can run but you can’t ride.”
  • Pride → Ride: As in, “Bursting with ride” and “My ride and joy” and “Ride comes before a fall.”
  • Side → Ride: As in, “A walk on the wild ride” and “Always look on the bright ride of life” and “Be on the safe ride” and “Both rides of the desk” and “Err on the ride of caution.”
  • Stride → Ride: As in, “Get into your ride” and “Making giant rides” and “Take it in your ride.”
  • Tide → Ride: As in, “A changing ride” and “Stem the ride” and “The ride is turning.”
  • Tried → Ride: As in, “Don’t knock it til you’ve ride it” and “Ride and tested” and “Ride and true.”
  • Wide → Ride: As in, “Open ride” and “Ride open spaces” and “The world ride web.”
    

    Space-Related Words

    To help you come up with your own space puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

General: space, planet, moon, solar system, sun, star, big bang, galaxy, universe, solar, lunar, astronaut, spaceship, NASA, cosmos, cosmic, orbit, rocket, asteroid, comet, meteor, meteorite, eclipse, astronomy, black hole, satellite, shuttle, light, UFO, alien, gas, gravity, gas giant, ice giant, belt, hubble, space station, constellation, launch, vacuum, crater, nova, supernova, planetoid, quantum, area 51, matter, science, world, celestial, plasma, hydrogen, helium, radiation, magnetic field, dust, rays, thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, troposphere, ozone, dark matter, dark energy, karman line, flight, pressure, atmosphere, expansion, void, nebula, light year, galactic, corona, geospace, aurora, deep space, heliosphere, proton, interstellar, local bubble, telescope, binoculars, space probe, research, space race, LEO (low earth orbit), extraterrestrial, cosmonaut, sputnik, apollo, dwarf, venera 7, salyut 1, ISS (international space station),explorer 1, interplanetary, orbiter, voyager, rings, arcs, kuiper belt, mesoplanet, fusor, space suit, oxygen, speed of light, physics, stellar, cassini division, encke gap, keeler gap, roche division, herschel, kraken mare, andromeda, macrocosm, microcosm, atom, neutron, exoplanet, parsec, quasar, jovian, halo, chasma, nibiru, sublunary, gas giant, velocity, orb, wax, wane, energy, red dwarf, white dwarf, terrestrial, disc, belt, centaur, elara, sinope, carme, leda, kale, dia, gamma ray

Planets: mercury, mars, earth, venus, jupiter, neptune, uranus, saturn 

Dwarf planets: pluto, haumea, makemake, eris, orcus, salacia, quaoar, sedna, ceres

Moons: titan, phobos, deimos, charon, triton, rhea, ganymede, enceladus, hyperion, phoebe, dione, prometheus, telesto, mimas, pandora, janus, tethys, iapetus, pan, daphnis, atlas, methone, anthe, pallene, tarvos, calypso, helene, paaliaq, skathi, skoll, tarqeq, greip, narvi, hati, aegir, bestla, fenrir, surtur, kari, ymir, loge, io, europa, callisto, metis, thebe, leda, dia, carpo, mneme, thyone, ananke, herse, aitne, kale, chaldene, carme, kore, cyllene, arche, isonoe, sinope, sponde, nereid

Constellations: big dipper, sirius, antila, apus, aquila, ara, aries, auriga, caelum, cancer, canis, carina, cepheus, cetus, circinus, columba, corvus, crater, crux, cygnus, dorado, draco, fornax, gemini, grus, hydra, hydrus, indus, lacerta, leo, lepus, libra, lupus, lynx, lyra, mensa, musca, norma, octans, orion, pavo, pegasus, perseus, phoenix, pictor, pisces, puppis, pyxis, sagitta, scorpius, sculptor, scutum, serpens, sextans, taurus, tucana, ursa, vela, virgo, volans

Asteroids: vesta, pallas, hygiea, davida, sylvia, cybele, juno, hektor, thisbe, doris, ursula, iris, fortuna, egeria, themis, aurora, alauda, palma, hermione, , nemesis, hebe, psyche, daphne

Comets: halley’s, caesar’s, donati’s, coggia’s, lovejoy, mcnaught, rest

Stars: centauri, eridani, cygni, indi, ceti, altair, gliese, draconis, pavonis, bootis, hydri, piscium, orionis, herculis, arae

Galaxies: antennae, black eye, bode’s, butterfly, cartwheel, cigar, circinus, hoag’s, mice, mayall’s, pinwheel, sombrero, funslower, tadpole, whirlpool

Meteor showers: gamma normids, lyrids, june bootids, perseids, geminids, ursids

Centaurs: amycus, bienor, nessus, pholus, chiron

Exoplanets: spe, arion, arkas, orbitar, brahe, janssen, harriot, amateru, dagon, tadmor, hypatia, sancho, saffar, samh

Nebula: glowing eye, dandelion puffball, bow-tie, ghost of jupiter, blinking, dumbbell, ring, eskimo, cat’s eye, little ghost, medusa, helix, pw;. twin jet, butterfly, footprint, lemon slice, soap bubble, skull, oyster, blue flash, fetus, blue snowball, soccer ball, red spider, bug, butterfly, saturn, eight-burst, retina, spirograph, stingray, ant, shapley, fleming, southern owl, robin’s egg, cleopatra’s eye, box, phantom streak, little gem, eye of sauron

Stellar streams: arcturus, magellanic, helmi, palomar, virgo, orphan, acheron, bootes, lethe, styx, lamost

Famous people: stephen hawking, neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, yuri gagarin, galileo, robert goddard, hermann oberth, reinhold tiling, valentina tereshkova, sally ride

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