Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
121
Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
160
It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
569
A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
2
The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
11
All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
194
The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
10