NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids (2024)

Snap it! An Eclipse Photo Adventure

Help the Traveler snap photos of an eclipse!

What Is Antarctica?

Antarctica is a continent. Antarctica covers Earth's South Pole.

SWOT Launch Bingo

During the launch broadcast, you can mark off the words that you hear!

Color Your Universe: Find the Hidden Objects

Can you find all the NASA and space-themed hidden objects?

What Are the Moon’s Phases?

Learn about the Moon's phases!

What Is a Leap Year?

Approximately every four years we add a day to the calendar. Learn more about why it’s important!

What Is a Tsunami?

A tsunami is a large wave caused by movements in Earth''s outer layer, or crust. Learn more about these big waves and how NASA monitors them.

Supermoon, Blood Moon, Blue Moon and Harvest Moon

Learn about the different names we have for a full moon!

What Is an Earthquake?

Learn more about tremors on Earth—and other planets too!

What Is a Solar Eclipse?

Learn more about what happens when the moon passes between Earth and the sun!

How Is the Sun Completely Blocked in an Eclipse?

It all has to do with the distance between Earth and the sun and Earth and the moon.

What Is La Niña?

Learn more about this weather pattern!

How Much Water Is on Earth?

Learn more about Earth's water in this video!

Make a Pastel Aurora!

Make your own colorful aurora!

Earth's Atmosphere

A jacket for the planet

Troposphere

The layer we call home

Stratosphere

The layer made of layers

Mesosphere

The middle layer

Thermosphere

The heat that won’t keep you warm

Make a Fan with Earth's Layers

Cool yourself with Earth’s hot interior

Ionosphere

The active, changing layer

Exosphere

The outermost layer

What Is an Aurora?

What causes this beautiful light show?

All About Earth

The planet with living things

Lunar Eclipses and Solar Eclipses

What’s the difference?

How Far Away Is the Moon?

It’s farther away than you might realize.

How Does GPS Work?

Space Place in a Snap explains how your phone knows where to look for pizza.

The Space Place Experiment Center

It's science time!

Make a Stained Glass Earth!

See our planet in a whole new light.

How Does GPS Work?

We all use it, but how does it work, anyway?

Why Does the Moon Have Craters?

It's not because the Moon gets hit by meteors more often...

Build your own spacecraft!

Become a NASA engineer!

What Is a Volcano?

And what causes them to form?

Space Volcanoes!

Explore the many volcanoes in our solar system using the Space Volcano Explorer.

Write your own zany adventure story!

Write your own zany adventure story!

Tired travelers

How can NASA help us learn about bird migration?

Printable Space Valentines

Share these with your friends and family!

NASA Pumpkin Stencils

Paint pumpkins with space and Earth science designs

Bad (space) weather cancels pigeon races!

Why do pigeons care about what the Sun is doing?

What Causes the Seasons?

The answer may surprise you.

Thirsty? Have a comet!

Could they have brought the water to our planet?

Make Oreo Moon Phases!

For the New Moon, you must eat all the creme filling!

Go With the Flow: An Ocean Currents Game

In this ocean currents game, use heat and salt to float your sub to the treasure!

Gallery of NASA Earth Images

View large images or print them.

Why Is the Sky Blue?

Learn the answer and impress your friends!

Telling a pine from a maple ... from space!

What if every kind of tree were a different color?

"See" inside a closed box!

Map a 3-D map of the invisible.

Make a topographic map!

Build your own mountain, then map it.

Building a 3-D Map of Earth from Space!

And in only 10 days!

How Do Hurricanes Form?

How do these monster storms happen?

What Is El Niño?

Learn all about it then make a yummy dessert that maps the ocean's heat.

Get your Gummy Greenhouse Gases!

Make pollutants from gumdrops, then gobble them up!

The Greenhouse Effect

How can one gas in the air be both good and bad?

Make a Cloud Mobile!

These pretty clouds move, but do not go away.

Guide to Climate Change for Kids

We answer some of your biggest questions about Earth's climate! This link takes you away from NASA Space Place.

10 Interesting Things About Earth

Learn new things about our planet! This link takes you away from NASA Space Place.

Climate Kids

NASA’s Climate Kids website brings climate science to life with fun games, interactive features and exciting articles. This link takes you away from NASA Space Place.

The Air We Breathe

A picture book about Earth's atmosphere and its importance to life on Earth. This link takes you away from NASA Space Place.