Astronomy YouTube Channels for Kids

SciShow is a channel dedicated to explaining science in a simple way, and their spinoff channel SciShow Kids caters directly to your little ones. The channel explores questions and concepts kids find interesting and encourages them to explore further and embrace their natural curiosity. While the channel covers multiple disciplines of science, there’s plenty of space-related content to be found.

The Let’s Go to Space! playlist is an excellent place to start. It’s updated on a regular basis every time the show produces a new video on the topic of space. You can find answers to common questions like “Where did the Earth come from?” and “What is a meteor shower?” There are even experiments and crafts suited for kids!

Crash Course Kids is similar to SciShow Kids and is made by the creators of the CrashCourse channel, which has educational videos for older audiences. The kids channel contains content that’s aimed towards grade school children, and their space compilation is an excellent place to start to get a feel for the channel. It’s a 25 minute video that revisits past videos on the topic of astronomy. After watching the compilation, you can check out their Space Science playlists. The first one is an Introduction to Stars, and the other is all about our solar system and the effect that the Sun has on the planets.

If you exhaust those playlists, you can move on to Physical Science, which introduces gravity and more advanced concepts like escape velocity and how we got to the moon.

Free School is just what it sounds like; it’s a channel that covers all the topics you’d encounter in school, from history, to natural science, to literature and even art and music, all for kids. Their astronomy content is gathered into a playlist, the Astronomy and Space for Children playlist, which has 32 videos that cover everything from the solar system to the moon landing and the constellations. While Crash Course Kids and SciShow Kids are hosted by live speakers, Free School is narrated and utilizes animations and pictures to keep kids interested and engaged.

Once you’ve gone through the astronomy content, don’t stop there! Free School offers so many videos covering a huge range of topics.

If your young child loves to join in on the adventures of TV show characters, they’ll get a kick out of Planet Cosmo! Planet Cosmo is a video series created by the Wizz Explore channel. Cosmo lives on the moon with her family, and through the adventures they all have, kids learn all about the solar system. Your kids will visit all the planets and learn what they’re made from, venture closer to the Sun to learn what it is and what it does, and they’ll even take a peek at Earth and learn about the planet we call home. There are over 80 episodes in the Planet Cosmo playlist, so the fun should last a good long while.

Kids Learning Tube uses music to teach, and it does so very effectively. The Astronomy playlist is full of videos that introduce kids to planets, moons, stars and more, all through catchy songs and clever animations. There’s a song to help learn the solar system as well as one for each planet, but they don’t stop there. There are also videos for stars like Betelgeuse, VY Canis Majoris, and dozens of dwarf planets. Before long, your child will be able to name more celestial objects than you!

When you’re on the go and don’t have access to YouTube, you can find Kids Learning Tube on Spotify and listen to many of the same songs they offer on their channel, including all the planet songs!