Astronomy Word Search
By Reggie J·Updated
Astronomy word search puzzles with star and sky English for adults — nebula, orbit, telescope and calm night-sky words. Easy to hard plus large print. Companion to Space.
Astronomy puzzles
Easy · 10×10 · 10 words
Astronomy: Star Chart
Easy · 10×10 · 10 words
Astronomy: Quiet Orbit
Easy · 10×10 · 10 words
Astronomy: Soft Path
Hard · 15×15 · 18 words
Hard Astronomy: Full Sky
Large print · 9×9 · 8 words
Large Print Astronomy: Soft Moon
Medium · 12×12 · 14 words
Astronomy: Telescope Night
Medium · 12×12 · 14 words
Astronomy: Horizon Glow
Medium · 12×12 · 14 words
Astronomy: Side Shelf
Part of our Space word search collection.
What words are in the astronomy word search?
Star and sky English — companion to Space, not a duplicate hub focus.
The full astronomy word bank has 50 words. Each puzzle picks a set from this list, so no two grids are quite the same:
ATLAS · AURORA · AXIS · CHART · CLUSTER · COMET · CONSTELLATION · COSMOS · CRATER · DAWN · DUSK · DUST · ECLIPSE · EQUATOR · EYEPIECE · GALAXY · GAS · GRAVITY · HORIZON · LENS · LIGHTYEAR · LUNAR · MAGNITUDE · METEOR · MILKY · MOON · MOUNT · NEBULA · NIGHT · NOVA · OBSERVATORY · ORBIT · PARALLAX · PHASE · PLANET · POLE · PULSAR · QUASAR · RING · SKY · SOLAR · STAR · SUN · SUPERNOVA · TELESCOPE · TWILIGHT · UNIVERSE · VOID · WAY · ZENITH
Who is this theme good for?
Night-sky vocabulary for curious adults.
A solving tip
Long words such as TELESCOPE and SUPERNOVA stand out first.
How these puzzles work
Every puzzle is free and plays in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Drag across a word, or tap its first and last letter. Easy grids are 10×10 with words across and down; medium grids are 12×12 and add diagonals; hard grids are 15×15 with words in all eight directions. Press Large print above any grid for bigger letters. Progress is saved on your device, and there is never a timer. New to word searches? Read how to play.
Sources & notes
Word lists on Words at Rest use American English spelling (for example color, not colour). Merriam-Webster records colour as chiefly the British spelling of color. Merriam-Webster: colour.
“chiefly British spelling of color”
