Moon Boom
Starry Systems
NASA Notables
Planet Palooza
Life Beyond Earth
100

This moon has lakes of liquid methane.

What is Saturn’s moon, Titan?

100

This is the largest constellation in the sky.

What is Hydra?

100

NASA’s full name

What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?

100

The planet with the hottest average surface temperature of all in the solar system

What is Venus?

100

First element discovered in Space

What is Helium?

200

This moon rotates backwards.

What is Neptune’s moon, Triton?

200

This constellation came about when a hunter was bit by a scorpion.

What is Orion? 

200

The year that NASA as we know it was officially established.

When was 1958?

200

This is the number of planets that have been known since ancient times (excluding Earth)

What is 5?

200

This equation is used to estimate the number of alien civilizations that we could communicate with.

What is the Drake Equation?

300

The term used to describe a small object that has enough gravity to affect the ice around it, but not large enough to be a moon.

What is a moonlet?

300

The brighter star in the constellation that depicts twin princes from Sparta.

What is Pollux (in Gemini)?

300

This 4-part NASA mission is meant to explore and establish a long-term human presence on the moon.

What is the NASA Artemis campaign?

300

This is the original meaning of the word “planet” (πλάνης) in Greek

What is “wanderer”?

300

Approximately many minutes it takes for light from the Sun to reach Earth.

How many is 8 minutes?

400

The first 2 discovered moons of Uranus are named after characters from which Shakespearean play?

What is A Midsummer Night’s Dream? (Moons are Titania and Oberon)

400

 Zodiac constellation best seen from September to January, peaking around early November.

 What is Pisces?

400

The federal agency that predated NASA.

What is the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)?

400

This German-British astronomer discovered Uranus

Who is William Herschel?

400

The characterization method used to determine how similar a planetary-mass object is to Earth on a scale of 0 to 1.

What is the Earth Similarity Index (ESI)?

500

The tallest known cliff in our solar system (33,000 ft), Verona Rupes, exists on this moon.

What is Miranda, a moon of Uranus?

500

Incan name of the constellation Lyra, and is worshipped as an animal deity in Peru.

Who is Urcuchillay?

500

This children’s toy was invented by a NASA scientist who worked on the Galileo mission.

What is the Super Soaker water gun?

500

This astronomer predicted the existence of Neptune before it was observed

Who is Urbain le Verrier or John Couch Adams?

500

The largest organic molecules found on Mars in 2025 fall into this class of chemicals.

What are hydrocarbons?

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