News Quiz: Week of March 16, 2026
8 questions on this week's news. Every answer comes from a cited news report, linked under the question. Built from Wikipedia's Current events portal.
1.What NASA space telescope, named for the agency's first chief of astronomy, was built to study exoplanets, the Milky Way, and dark energy?
2.Japan's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is designed to collect a sample from which of Mars' moons?
3.China's Chang'e 7 mission was designed to explore the south pole of what celestial body?
4.What European Space Agency (ESA) space telescope, whose name stands for PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars, is designed to hunt for exoplanets?
5.ESA's Hera mission, launched in October 2024, was sent to study which asteroid system that NASA's DART spacecraft struck in 2022?
6.The joint ESA-JAXA mission BepiColombo, launched in 2018, was sent to orbit what planet?
7.What commercial space station, developed by Vast, was designed to be the first capable of hosting private visitors?
8.What major baseball event was held from March 5-17, 2026?