An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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