Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.

10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.

Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.

One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.

The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.