The Kepler Spacecraft, a "planet-hunter" launched by NASA in 2009 to find evidence of other planets in the universe, has been doing just that for close to six years.
You know we all do it. Pointlessly stroll through the interwebs the first couple minutes, or hours, of our workday. Most of the time, we don't ever find anything that is actually worth anything more than a laugh. Then there are those mornings where you learn something that is actually interesting.