We have nine planets in our Solar System. These planets circle around the sun (as I’m sure you know already) this is called orbits. A lot of astronomy people like to think of the Solar System …

Planets MERCURY Each time you look up to the sky and see a star you are looking at a sun in another galaxy. If you were on another planet looking back at our solar system, you would see …

All of our planets are on the same “plane” and orbit in the same direction: When you see an image of all eight of the planets in our solar system you will notice that they have a tendency to follow …

Our solar system has eight planets: Mercury, Venus Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you added all of the planets together they would make up only 0.14% of the mass …

In our solar system we have eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are the inner rocky or “terrestrial” planets. Jupiter and Saturn are the outer gas giants. Uranus and Neptune are the …

All of the planets in our solar system are named after male gods or mythological creatures, with the exception of Venus. It is the only planet named after a female and it’s thought that it was …

Voyager 1: 1977: Voyager 1 was designed to fly by both Jupiter and Saturn and then continue to the outer reaches of our solar system. Voyager 2: 1977: Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft thus …

Planets are created when gravity pulls dust and swirling gas together. Mercury was formed around 4.5 billion years ago and became the small planet that is closest to our sun.

Of all of the planets and bodies in our solar system, Mars is the most explored and the only planet that we have sent rovers to travel the landscape and collect samples and data.

To figure out whether a planet is powerful enough to clear its neighborhood, planetary scientists have developed a parameter calculation that can be applied so that an object can be defined …