Space Word Search

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The list for this puzzle covers the solar system and a handful of named stars: the planets, the dwarf planets Ceres, Pluto, Eris, Haumea and Makemake, and the stars Acrux, Altair, Canopus, Mimosa and Vega. Free to print, free to play online.

Those five dwarf planets are not a selection. They are the complete set that the International Astronomical Union currently recognizes. Ceres sits in the asteroid belt and is the only one inside Neptune's orbit. Makemake is named for the creator god of Rapa Nui and Haumea for a Hawaiian goddess of childbirth, and both were found in 2005, in the run of discoveries that got Pluto reclassified the following year.

Two of the stars belong to the same small constellation. Acrux and Mimosa are the brightest points of the Southern Cross, which never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. Canopus is the second brightest star in the entire night sky, and most people in the United States have never seen it.

The free PDF suits a science lesson. Online, the grid comes up different every round.

Free Space Word Search Online Game

Play the Space word search in your browser, on your own or head to head against a friend in real time. Nothing to install and no account needed – send someone the link and you are both looking at the same grid.

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Space Word Search Printable Puzzles

Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Space word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.

Puzzle Vocabulary Words

Below you can see all possible words that the topic Space has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.

• Acrux
• Altair
• Arcturus
• Asteroid
• Astronaut
• Canopus
• Ceres
• Comet
• Earth
• Eris
• Gravity
• Haumea
• Jupiter
• Makemake
• Mars
• Mercury
• Mimosa
• Moon
• Nasa
• Neptune
• Oxygen
• Pluto
• Rocket
• Saturn
• Shuttle
• Sun
• Uranus
• Vega
• Venus