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 …

The planets in our solar system are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. There are also dwarf planets such as Pluto, dozens of moons and millions of …

Pluto was originally classified as a planet, but is now known as a “dwarf planet”. In 2005, an American astronomer called Mike Brown thought that he had found a planet further out in the …

Earth is one of the terrestrial planets, which means it has a central core, rocky mantle, and a crust that is solid. Our Earth orbits the sun every 23.9 hours and it takes 365.23 days to complete an …

The terrestrial planets that exist within our solar system are also those that are the “inner planets” or those closest to the sun: Our four terrestrial planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.

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.

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 …

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 …

Our Milky Way galaxy has more planets than it has stars. In our solar system we have eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are the inner rocky planets.

Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system and Mars is the second smallest planet. Other civilizations throughout history have also named the planet due to its color.