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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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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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 were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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