An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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