An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
9
The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
11
An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
82
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.
9
In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
14
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