Space Explorer Use your astronaut’s rocket boosters to avoid obstacles and collect stars as you explore the planets in our solar system. You'll unlock new far-out facts along the way!

Earth’s veil of atmosphere not only provides the right mix of breathable air for animals and plants, it also acts as a sort of force field against solar radiation and deadly space debris.

A weak magnetic field protects visitors from the sun’s deadly solar radiation (Earth has a similar but much stronger field), and the crater-pocked surface may contain valuable minerals. The speediest of …

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National Geographic Kids Videos Why would someone tickle a worm? Find out on this episode of “Just Joking—LOL.”

The last mission to the moon was in 1972. Though humans haven’t returned to the moon since, they have continued to explore space. They even built the International Space Station (ISS), a space …

• The surface and orbit of Mars bustles with robotic vehicles and probes that are mining the planet for all sorts of info—including signs of life (none have been found so far).

Yet unlike the white male astronauts she helped launch into space, no one knew of the groundbreaking work Johnson and dozens of other Black women did for NASA and space exploration.

Our first steps into space began as a race between the United States and the former Soviet Union, rivals in a global struggle for power. Laika was followed into orbit four years later by the first human, Soviet …

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