Space Vocabulary

The sun and its planets, along with moons, asteroids, and comets

• dwarf planet

• planet

• outer planet

• solar system

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

our home galaxy

• galaxy

• Mars

• Milky Way galaxy

• Snickers Galaxy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

a huge system of gas, dust, stars, and objects held together by gravity. There can be many solar systems in one of these

• galaxy

• planet

• asteroids

• comets

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

a large, round object that revolves around a star and has cleared the region around its orbit

• space probe

• comet

• planet

• moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

any of the four closest planets to the sun

• outer planets

• inner planets

• comets

• atomic planets

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

a huge ball of very hot gas that gives off energy

• star

• asteroid

• planet

• Milky Way

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

a large round object that revolves around the sun but has not cleared the region around its orbit

• Mercury

• Mars

• inner planet

• dwarf planet

any of the four planets in our solar system beyond Mars

• inner planets

• outer planets

• galaxy

• asteroid

the path an object takes as it revolves around a star, planet, or moon

• revolve

• orbit

• rotate

• space probe

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

a rocky mass up to several hundred kilometers wide that revolves around the sun

• meteor

• comet

• asteroid

• meteorite