The largest solar power plant in the world is in India, with a capacity of 2.25 GW. It spans 50 km² and powers 1.5 million homes. The panels are so vast they’re visible from space!

A rare blue lobster, caught off Maine, stuns with its one-in-two-million odds. Its vivid hue stems from a genetic mutation altering shell pigments.

The chemical reaction of iron oxidation creates rust, accelerated by the presence of water and oxygen.

Sea turtles lay up to 100 eggs at a time, counted in long-term observations.

Black holes evaporate over time through a process called Hawking radiation, according to quantum gravity theory.

The largest library in the world, the Library of Congress in the US, holds over 170 million books. If you read one book a day, it’d take 465,000 years to read them all! They even have books the s...

The Quilon River in India appears only once every 10 years and flows for a few days! Geologists discovered its water drains into underground cavities due to tectonic movements.

The Earth’s core reaches a temperature of 6,000°C, comparable to the Sun’s surface, due to radioactive decay.

The largest iceberg in the world, A-76, broke off from Antarctica in 2021. Its area is 4,320 km², larger than some islands! It’s slowly drifting in the ocean, and scientists are tracking it to u...

Gravitational waves, predicted by Einstein, were first detected in 2015 using LIGO.

In 1888, the oldest photograph of a human was found in London. The image shows a busy street, but due to long exposure, only one person who stood still is visible. It’s like a window to the past!...

A small ‘sand hawk’ in the Arabian Desert dives into the sand. Its wings help it glide beneath the dunes.

Sand in the Gobi Desert forms circles resembling eyes! Geologists found this is due to wind erosion creating patterns on the surface.

The Hubble Space Telescope detected galaxies 13 billion light-years from Earth.

Archaeologists discovered traces of 7,000-year-old wheat in Turkey, proving early agriculture in the region.

Archaeological finds in China revealed silk use 8,500 years ago, confirming textile technologies.

The largest tree in the world by volume, Árbol del Tule in Mexico, has a 14-meter diameter. This 2,000-year-old cypress is considered sacred by locals. Its canopy can shelter 500 people!

The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter contains about 1.9 million asteroids larger than 1 km.

In 2020, a frog the size of a fingernail was found in Antarctica for the first time. This species, called the “ice frog,” survives at -30°C by freezing its body and reviving when thawed. Scien...

Lake Baikal holds 20% of the planet’s freshwater, making it the deepest and oldest freshwater lake.