An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
9
There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
15
Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
121
There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
5
There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
721
There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
11
It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
569
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
159