Planets & Moons
The name of Earth's only natural satellite?
The name of the first manned mission to land on the Moon.
What is Apollo 11?
Astronauts use this to communicate with Earth while in space.
What is a radio?
The name of the closest star to Earth.
What is the Sun?
The name of our galaxy?
What is the Milky Way?
The planet that is mostly known for its ring system.
What is Saturn?
The space probe that was the first to fly by Pluto in 2015.
What is New Horizons?
The vehicle that carries astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
What is a space shuttle?
What constellation is known as the Big Dipper part of?
What is Ursa Major?
The name of the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way?
What is the Andromeda Galaxy
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
The name of the first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957
What is Sputnik 1?
The device that helps scientists see faraway objects in space from Earth.
What is a telescope
What is the name of the star that is known as the North Star?
What is Polaris?
The term for a large cloud of gas and dust in space where new stars are born.
What is a nebula
The planet closest to the sun.
The NASA rover that landed on Mars in 2012 to explore the Gale Crater.
What is Curiosity?
The kind of machine we send to Mars to explore its surface.
What is a rover?
The name of the constellation that looks like a hunter and contains the famous belt of three stars?
What is Orion?
The name of the galaxy group that includes our Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy.
What is the Local Group?
The moon of Jupiter that is the largest moon in our whole solar system.
The name of the space shuttle that completed the first reusable spacecraft flight in 1981.
What is Space Shuttle Columbia?
The technology that helps guide spacecraft and satellites through space.
What is a GPS (Global Positioning System)?
A group of stars that form a recognizable pattern in the night sky?
What is a constellation?
The name of the galaxy that contains a supermassive black hole at its center and is located in the constellation Virgo?
What is the Virgo Cluster