• 28 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

Space ASCII Art

Tap a rocket, a moon or an alien to copy every line of it; the first alien holds a sign.

Space ASCII Art

.-"""""-. / \ | __ __ | | (##\ /##) | \ ' ' / \ - / .-(_)'---'(_)-. | YOUR WORDS | '-------------'Alien holding a sign9 lines, 15 wideReady to copy

28 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 4

Small, 2 to 4 lines 7

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 13

Large, 10 lines and up 3

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How it works

Space ASCII art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 28 pieces, with rockets standing and flying, aliens and their saucers, the Earth, the moon in two phases, an astronaut and a satellite.

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Rocket ASCII art, standing or flying

Rocket standing upright rests on two fins and has two portholes. Rocket lifting off adds a flame and a cloud of smoke on each side, and is the tallest piece at 13 lines. Rocket flying right lies on its side with three portholes and a flame of tildes.

Moon ASCII in two phases

Full moon with craters is a circle with five craters of three sizes. Crescent moon with a star opens to the left around one asterisk. Earth and moon sets a small moon beside the globe, joined by three periods.

  • For moon text art in a box that eats spaces, Squash-proof full moon fills every gap with a period.
  • Alien holding a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS, or 13 if you type over the padding.

Questions and answers

How is the ASCII Earth drawn?

As a circle 8 rows tall with patches of number signs for land and blank sea between them. The patches follow no real map. Small Earth does the same in 4 rows.

Is there an ASCII alien that fits on one line?

Yes. Alien face on one line is 13 characters: two zeros for eyes in a round head, with an antenna ending in a lowercase o on each side. Flying saucer on one line is 11.

How do you make a rocket with keyboard symbols?

Type three tildes, a closing brace and an equals sign, then [_o_o_] and a greater-than sign: ~~~}=[_o_o_]> is a rocket flying to the right with a flame behind it.

What is the biggest piece of space ASCII art here?

Rocket lifting off, at 13 lines. Saucer and its light beam is 11 lines and 23 columns, the widest of the large pieces, and Astronaut, front view is 10 lines.

All 28 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Alien holding a sign The chin closes on a notice gripped by two round hands. YOUR WORDS is 10 characters long; the row holds 13. 9 lines, 15 wide.

One line 4

  • Alien face on one line Two zeros for eyes in a round head, with an antenna ending in a lowercase o on each side. 1 line, 13 wide.
  • Flying saucer on one line A dome in parentheses on a disc of equals signs and hyphens. 1 line, 11 wide.
  • Planets on one line A sun in parentheses, then planets small and large, one of them with a ring drawn as two hyphens. 1 line, 17 wide.
  • Rocket on one line Three tildes of flame, a brace for the fins, a body with two portholes and a pointed nose. 1 line, 13 wide.
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Small, 2 to 4 lines 7

  • Satellite with two panels A round body between two solar panels, each three cells wide and two deep. 3 lines, 25 wide.
  • Small alien face A round head with an at sign for each eye, narrowing to a small chin. 4 lines, 7 wide.
  • Small Earth A globe four rows tall with number signs for land. 4 lines, 7 wide.
  • Small flying saucer A dome over a disc with three lights along its rim. 3 lines, 13 wide.
  • Small ringed planet A banded planet seen edge-on to its ring, which is a row of equals signs either side. 3 lines, 16 wide.
  • Squash-proof alien face The slanted eyes and narrow chin on four rows of nine. 4 lines, 9 wide.
  • Squash-proof flying saucer A dome of quote marks on a disc with five lights. 3 lines, 13 wide.

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 13

  • Alien face A wide skull narrowing to a small chin, with two large slanted eyes filled with number signs. 7 lines, 13 wide.
  • Alien waving The whole alien standing: a round head, one arm raised to the right and one hanging on the left. 8 lines, 11 wide.
  • Alien with antennae The face with two antennae rising from the top of the skull, each ending in a lowercase o. 9 lines, 13 wide.
  • Astronaut helmet A round helmet with a visor, an asterisk of reflected light in its corner and a collar ring below. 6 lines, 13 wide.
  • Crescent moon with a star A crescent that opens to the left, with one asterisk in the hollow. 7 lines, 9 wide.
  • Earth and moon The globe with a small moon to its right, joined by three periods. 8 lines, 30 wide.
  • Earth, drawn round A globe with number signs for land on the left and on the right, and open sea between them. 8 lines, 18 wide.
  • Flying saucer with a dome Two eyes show inside the dome; the disc under it has four lights and a rounded belly. 5 lines, 22 wide.
  • Full moon with craters A round moon with five craters of three sizes. 7 lines, 16 wide.
  • Rocket flying right A long hull with three portholes and a rounded nose, two tail fins and a flame of tildes behind. 5 lines, 25 wide.
  • Rocket standing upright A rocket on its fins: a pointed nose, two portholes and a small flame under the tail. 9 lines, 9 wide.
  • Squash-proof full moon A round moon with five craters, every gap a period. 5 lines, 9 wide.
  • Squash-proof rocket The upright rocket with periods for every gap. 5 lines, 7 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 3

  • Astronaut, front view The whole suit: helmet and visor, a chest pack, a glove at the end of each arm and two boots. 10 lines, 15 wide.
  • Rocket lifting off The upright rocket above its flame, with a cloud of smoke on each side. 13 lines, 13 wide.
  • Saucer and its light beam The domed saucer hovering over a line of ground, with a beam of colons widening beneath it. 11 lines, 23 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-03, rendered in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, and nothing from a named show, book, film or game is drawn. The aliens share one construction of this site's own: a wide skull that narrows to a small chin, with two slanted eyes filled with number signs. The saucers are a dome on a disc with lights along the rim, the rockets stand on two fins or fly to the right, and land on the Earth is a patch of number signs that follows no real map. Every character is one of the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E. Squash-proof means no line starts with a space and no two spaces touch. The comment box badge means at most 8 lines and 30 columns: a rule of thumb of this site, not a promise about any app. Licence: own work

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