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
On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
7
It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
569
All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
194
The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
145
There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
15
Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
4
Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
100