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Space

Planets, missions and the people who left the planet.

17 quizzes

• ☄️ Comets, Asteroids and Meteors — Icy wanderers, rocky leftovers and streaks of light across the night sky. Make a wish on a shooting star and see how much you really know.
• 🌌 Deep Space Mysteries — Black holes that leak, stars the size of a city and a universe that refuses to slow down. Think you can find your way through the deep dark?
• 🌘 Eclipses and Sky Events — Shadows that swallow the Sun, rains of shooting stars and curtains of green light: test how well you know the sky's greatest shows.
• 🪐 Exoplanets and Alien Life — Thousands of worlds circle other suns, and someone may be listening. Tune your radio telescope and find out how ready you are for first contact.
• 🔴 Mars Exploration: Rovers and Red Dust — Rovers, landers, a tiny helicopter and a very dusty planet. Find out if you could steer a mission safely to the Red Planet and back.
• 🌒 Moons of the Solar System — Volcano moons, geyser moons and a moon with a Death Star crater. Leave our own Moon behind and see how well you know the other worlds that circle the planets.
• 🔭 Pioneers of Astronomy — They measured the Earth with shadows, moved the Sun to the centre and spotted new worlds. Step into the observatory and prove you belong among them.
• 🛰️ Robotic Space Probes — Golden records, plutonium batteries and landers that bounce: follow the robot explorers that flew where no astronaut has ever gone.
• 🚀 Rockets and Launchers — From a backyard rocket in 1926 to boosters that land themselves, this is rocket science for real. Light the fuse and see if you reach orbit.
• 🛰️ Satellites and Orbits — From Sputnik's first beeps to GPS in your pocket and the growing cloud of space junk, find out how well you really know what circles our planet.
• 🪐 Solar System Tour — Twenty stops around the Sun, from the planet that bakes hottest to the one rolling on its side. One answer surprises almost everybody.
• 🚀 Space Missions and Astronauts — Firsts, near-disasters and probes that never came home. Twenty questions on the people and machines that left the planet behind.
• 🛰️ Space Stations: Life in Orbit — From Salyut and Skylab to the ISS and Tiangong, homes that circle the planet. Could you survive a tour of duty 400 km above the clouds?
• ✨ Stars and Constellations — Red giants, pole stars and ancient patterns in the night sky. Step outside in your mind and see how many stars you can name and place.
• 🔭 Telescopes and Deep Space — Black holes, baby galaxies and the tricks astronomers use to measure the unmeasurable. How much of the deep sky can you actually name?
• 🌙 The Moon: Our Nearest Neighbour — Phases, tides, craters and a few famous footprints. You have looked up at it all your life, so how well do you really know the Moon?
• 🌞 The Sun: Our Star — Sunspots, solar storms and a nuclear furnace 150 million km away. Put on your eclipse glasses and see how much you know about our star.