When we think of the era of manned lunar flight, we imagine a column of fire and smoke rising from a massive rocket taking off from Cape Canaveral. This is the Saturn V—a three-stage colossus that carried humans to the Moon nine times and once launched the American space station, Skylab, into orbit.

Termite mounds, although they may look simple from the outside, are in fact extremely complex structures equipped with their own... air conditioning system.

Everyone's heard of a zipper (no, it's not the super-fast building with towers), but have you heard of a lightning bolt? Probably not, because that name just popped into our heads when we decided to tell you about fulgurites (fulgurite is actually the common name in science).

If we were in Europe at the end of the Jurassic period and had a precise map, it would have been difficult to figure out where we were. Much of the continent remained underwater, and the small expanses of land, separated by seas, were carved into by bays of the now-vanished Tethys Ocean.

It is one of the most famous iron meteorites found on Earth. It is believed to have struck our planet's surface around 4,000 years ago, but was likely formed around 4.5 billion years ago, during the formation of the protoplanetary disk!