The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
163
There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
5
Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
13
The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
147
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.
14
The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
10