About Frontier Academy

Frontier Academy is a free educational website about space and exploration. It covers astronomy (the Moon, the planets, the Sun and the stars), spaceflight (rockets, the Apollo missions, the International Space Station and Mars rovers), how the Earth works, and the history and science of finding our way around it, from compasses and latitude to the great voyages and polar expeditions.

The articles are written mainly for pupils aged about 10 to 15, roughly Years 6 to 10 in England or grades 5 to 9 in the US. They follow the Earth and space topics taught at KS2, KS3 and early GCSE, and are also meant for teachers who want a clear text to share with a class and for parents helping with homework.

Frontier Academy is a website, not a school. It has no connection with any school, academy or educational trust with a similar name.

Who runs this site

Frontier Academy is published by Mediaguru s.r.o., a small independent publisher based in Slovakia. The same team also runs ModernScholar (free learning games and quizzes) and EduPrintables (free printable worksheets), which some articles link to.

Articles on this site are written and edited by Dušan Varga.

How we write and check articles

Drafts are prepared with the help of AI writing tools. Each one is then edited by the team and checked against the published sources listed at the end of the article, such as NASA, ESA, the British Geological Survey, Royal Museums Greenwich and Britannica. We round numbers where exact values would not help a learner, and say so when figures change over time, such as the number of known moons around the giant planets. Where historians disagree, we say that rather than choosing the most exciting version of a story.

We correct mistakes when readers point them out. If something looks wrong or out of date, please let us know and we will check it.

Safety

Some articles suggest simple activities. Anything involving the night sky outdoors, magnets, needles or the Sun should be done with an adult. Never look directly at the Sun, with or without binoculars or a telescope.

Independence

Frontier Academy is free to read. We do not sell courses, and links to other sites appear only where we think they help the reader.

Contact

Questions, corrections or suggestions are welcome: please use our contact form.