In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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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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