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NASA Space Place
NASA Space Place collects articles, animations, games and crafts about space and Earth.
Topics include Moon phases, the solar system and a game about talking to spacecraft through giant antennas. Content is grouped both by subject and by kind of activity, which makes it simple to swap between reading, making and playing.
- Ages
- Elementary-age learners
- Works on
- Web browser
- Topics
- Science
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Listed
- 2026-10-11
What kids do
- Explore Moon phases
- Play a spacecraft communication game
- Make a space craft
- Read solar-system explainers
Who it suits
NASA aims it at elementary-age learners.
Notes for parents
A Spanish version covers the same broad subjects. Art challenges invite children to send in their work.
In these guides
- Why does the Moon change shape? Space apps and websites for kids’ big questions: Seven space apps and websites for curious kids, matched to the questions children often ask about the Moon, seasons, planets and stars.
More Science
- Solar Walk: Space Simulator 3D: A 3D model of the solar system to move around in, with scale comparisons and animations about Moon phases and tides.
- Science for Kids by Tappity: Interactive science videos, questions and a science journal, covering topics such as magnets and volcanoes.
- MarcoPolo Weather: Children adjust wind, temperature and precipitation and watch a landscape and its characters react.
- MarcoPolo Ocean: Reef building, a submersible to assemble and marine animals to find, with narration that introduces ocean words.
- Coral Reef by Tinybop: Children explore a reef food web, hide an octopus and follow food through a jellyfish to see how ocean life connects.
- Star Walk Kids: Astronomy Game: Cartoons, narrated facts and quick quizzes guide children around a moving solar system and a mobile observatory.
- The Earth by Tinybop: Volcanoes, earthquakes, fossils and shifting sediment, all on screen, showing how the Earth’s surface changes.
- Space by Tinybop: An interactive solar system model where children compare planets, tilt the Earth and follow the phases of the Moon.