Across
- 3. A large gas giant with a series of rings
- 5. Our home planet, about 4.5 billion years old and the only planet where life is known to exist.
- 8. The first man on the moon, when Apollo 11 landed in 1966. Neil ...
- 10. A ball of space ice and dust, with a tail known as a "coma"
Down
- 1. The first dog in space - she traveled in a a spacecraft know as Sputnik 2
- 2. The red planet, the spacecraft Beagle 2 crashlanded here.
- 4. The further planet from the sun, violent storms batter the surface.
- 6. A hole formed by a meteorite hitting the surface of a planet or a moon
- 7. A space explorer - this word means "space sailor"
- 9. A shooting star - it burns up in the atmosphere as it falls to Earth