Updated: August 20, 2025

Test your knowledge of 2025’s biggest science headlines. Choose the best option for each question.

1. Which company’s lander achieved a successful Moon landing in early 2025?
   1. SpaceX
   2. Firefly Aerospace
   3. Rocket Lab
   4. None of these
2. Blue Ghost Mission 1 primarily delivered instruments to study:
   1. Martian atmosphere
   2. Venusian volcanoes
   3. Lunar soil and radiation
   4. None of these
3. After recent confirmations, approximately how many moons does Saturn have?
   1. 95
   2. 146
   3. 274
   4. None of these
4. Many of Saturn’s newly confirmed moons are roughly:
   1. 1–3 km across
   2. 100–300 km across
   3. 1000–3000 km across
   4. None of these
5. The galaxy nicknamed MoM-z14 was formed roughly how long after the Big Bang?
   1. 28 million years
   2. 280 million years
   3. 2.8 billion years
   4. None of these
6. MoM-z14 was identified using which telescope?
   1. Hubble Space Telescope
   2. James Webb Space Telescope
   3. Spitzer Space Telescope
   4. None of these
7. The UK discovery of ~200 dinosaur footprints dates to which period?
   1. Triassic
   2. Late Cretaceous
   3. Mid-Jurassic
   4. None of these
8. The dinosaur footprints are attributed mainly to:
   1. Theropods
   2. Sauropods
   3. Ornithopods
   4. None of these
9. A key challenge fusion research is trying to overcome is:
   1. Creating artificial gravity
   2. Plasma stability and confinement
   3. Mining helium-3 on the Moon
   4. None of these
10. If successful at scale, fusion power would be primarily:
    1. Fossil-fuel based
    2. Intermittent like wind
    3. Clean and abundant
    4. None of these
11. The lunar mission’s broader significance includes progress toward:
    1. Venus cloud cities
    2. Permanent Moon bases
    3. Terraforming Mars
    4. None of these
12. The newly confirmed small Saturnian moons help scientists study:
    1. Formation of planetary ring systems
    2. Processes of planetary formation and capture
    3. Dark energy directly
    4. None of these

Answer Key

1. B
2. C
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. B
7. C
8. B
9. B
10. C
11. B
12. B

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