Exoplanet Missions Quiz

Try out this Exoplanet Missions quiz to test your knowledge. Exoplanet Missions trivia explores the telescopes, probes, and observing campaigns that revealed thousands of worlds orbiting distant stars.

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Question 1 · Easy · 10 pts
The first confirmed exoplanets found in 1992 orbited what object?
Question 2 · Hard · 40 pts
Before becoming associated with later exoplanet work, who served as project scientist for ESA's Hipparcos mission?
Question 3 · Hard · 40 pts
Which earlier ESA mission supplied stellar data that later proved useful when selecting exoplanet targets?
Question 4 · Hard · 40 pts
What observing method looks for planets by tracking tiny shifts in a star's position on the sky?
Question 5 · Hard · 40 pts
K2's observing campaigns were arranged as a sequence of fields near what reference plane?
Question 6 · Hard · 40 pts
Which planetary system became especially notable for reaching a count of eight known planets?
Question 7 · Hard · 40 pts
AI-assisted analysis in 2017 helped uncover which specific world in the Kepler-90 system?
Question 8 · Hard · 40 pts
TESS cruises in a high Earth orbit locked in what resonance with the Moon?
Question 9 · Hard · 40 pts
CHEOPS was built to pin down what property of already known transiting exoplanets?
Question 10 · Hard · 40 pts
Which ESA mission is planned specifically to survey exoplanet atmospheres?
Question 11 · Hard · 40 pts
Which future observatory is expected to carry out a microlensing exoplanet survey?
Question 12 · Hard · 40 pts
Roman's exoplanet microlensing survey is aimed toward which dense region of the Milky Way?
Question 13 · Easy · 10 pts
What does the acronym TESS stand for?
Question 14 · Easy · 10 pts
From which Florida launch site did TESS lift off?
Question 15 · Easy · 10 pts
Kepler found most of its planets using what method?

The first confirmed exoplanets found in 1992 orbited what object?

Before becoming associated with later exoplanet work, who served as project scientist for ESA's Hipparcos mission?

Which earlier ESA mission supplied stellar data that later proved useful when selecting exoplanet targets?

What observing method looks for planets by tracking tiny shifts in a star's position on the sky?

K2's observing campaigns were arranged as a sequence of fields near what reference plane?

Which planetary system became especially notable for reaching a count of eight known planets?

AI-assisted analysis in 2017 helped uncover which specific world in the Kepler-90 system?

TESS cruises in a high Earth orbit locked in what resonance with the Moon?

CHEOPS was built to pin down what property of already known transiting exoplanets?

Which ESA mission is planned specifically to survey exoplanet atmospheres?

Which future observatory is expected to carry out a microlensing exoplanet survey?

Roman's exoplanet microlensing survey is aimed toward which dense region of the Milky Way?

What does the acronym TESS stand for?

From which Florida launch site did TESS lift off?

Kepler found most of its planets using what method?