Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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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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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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