If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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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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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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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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