MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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