Who was the first woman in space?

What do astronauts call EVA?

Who first applied a telescope to the study of the heavens?

What scientist gave their name to zones of charged particles ranging from 3,000 to 20,000 km (1,860 to 12,400 miles) above the Earth?

What astronomer was the first to compile a systematic catalog of nebulae and star clusters?

Who was the first American woman to fly into outer space?

India’s first Earth-orbiting satellite was named for what astronomer-mathematician of the Gupta dynasty?

What was launched into Earth orbit in 1990, was repaired by space-walking astronauts in 1993, and went on to take spectacular photos that contributed greatly to space science?

In the 2nd century BCE the Greek astronomer and mathematician Hipparchus observed that the stars had shifted slightly from positions reported in earlier times. What is the modern name for this slight movement, now known to be caused by a wobbling of the Earth’s axis of rotation?

In honour of their discoverer, Jupiter’s four largest moons—Io, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto—are collectively given what title?

What science began in the early 1930s when engineer Karl Jansky, working on the problem of telephone interference, detected emissions emanating from the stars?

On which celestial body did the 19th-century astronomer Percival Lowell claim, wrongly, to see a system of irrigation canals constructed by intelligent beings?

Who formulated the three laws of planetary motion?

From 1986 to 2000, what hosted astronauts and cosmonauts from a dozen countries?

Which space station hosted several scientific investigations before breaking apart and dropping debris across Western Australia?

Who first suggested the idea of putting an artificial satellite into orbit?

Whose Earth-centred model of the universe dominated astronomy through the Middle Ages?

What luminous objects, first spotted in the Southern Hemisphere by European explorers, are satellite galaxies of the Milky Way Galaxy?

When Clyde Tombaugh, a young American astronomer, pointed his telescope in 1930 at a part of the sky where something was said to be perturbing the orbits of Neptune and Uranus, what did he discover?

According to British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, numerous mini black holes in the universe will emit subatomic particles until what happens?

In 1930 French astronomer Bernard Lyot invented a device that blocks out light from the blinding central disk of the Sun and allows images to be made of what less prominent solar feature?

Who postulated the first mathematically sound model of a heliocentric system—that is, a universe in which the planets revolve around the Sun?

What was the name of the first spacecraft to return photographs of the far side of the Moon?

Who produced the first star catalog of the Southern Hemisphere, edited Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica, and correctly predicted the return of a comet?

What astronomical object, beginning as a supernova (violently exploding star) and observed by Chinese astronomers in 1054, can still be seen in the constellation Taurus?

What was the first space probe to reach Mercury?