Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.

The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.

If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.

The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.

The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.

Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.

The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.

To escape the Earth's gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.