The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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