The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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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.
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