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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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