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  1. What Is Gravity? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Sep 25, 2025 · Gravity is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center. The force of gravity keeps all of the planets in orbit around the sun. What else does gravity do? Why do …

  2. Gravity | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Sep 25, 2025 · What Is Gravity? Gravity is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center. explore What Is a Black Hole? Space Place in a Snap tackles this fascinating …

  3. Universe | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Sep 25, 2025 · Interstellar space begins where the sun’s magnetic field stops affecting its surroundings. Space Place in a Snap tackles this fascinating question! Galaxies, nebulae, and supernova remnants …

  4. Videos | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Sep 25, 2025 · How Do We Launch Things Into Space? You need a rocket with enough fuel to escape Earth’s gravity! What Is a Nebula? What Is a Solar Eclipse? Learn more about what happens when …

  5. What Is Dark Matter? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Sep 25, 2025 · The galaxy's powerful gravity warps and magnifies the quasar's light, producing four warped pictures of the quasar. Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Player (STScI) Dark matter and dark …

  6. How Do We Launch Things Into Space? - NASA Space Place

    Sep 25, 2025 · We launch satellites and spacecraft into space by putting them on rockets carrying tons of propellants. The propellants give the rocket enough energy to boost away from Earth’s surface. …

  7. What | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    What Is Dark Matter? explore What Is Gravity? Gravity is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center. explore What Is a Planet? explore What Is the James Webb Space...

  8. What Is a Planet? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Jun 27, 2019 · Gravity collected lots of material in the center to create the sun. The left over stuff swirled around the forming sun, colliding and collecting together. Some would have enough gravity to attract …

  9. All About the Moon | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Sep 25, 2025 · The impact sent chunks of Earth and the impactor into space that were pulled together by gravity, creating the Moon. How do we study the Moon? Even thousands of years ago, humans …

  10. Glossary | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Sep 25, 2025 · Gravity: A force that pulls matter together. Greenhouse gas: Gases in the atmosphere that trap heat from the sun. Some greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and …