An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
82
If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
18
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.
6
Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
13
When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
31
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.
10