Most Planets In Our Solar System

More than 150 moons orbit worlds in our solar system.

Most planets in our solar system.

Scientists investigate diamond planets unlike anything in our solar system a new experiment shows some exoplanets may be full of earth s most wanted gemstone. In some ways the swarms of moons around these worlds resemble mini versions of our solar system. Jupiter and saturn have long lead our solar system s moon counts. Planet facts interesting planet facts mercury the smallest and fastest planet it zips around the sun in only 88 earth days.

One confirmed epsilon eridani b another yet unconfirmed epsilon eridani c making it the closest planetary system at just over 10 light years from the solar system. Mars mars was a wet and warm planet billions of years ago. There are 8 planets in our solar system they are mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus and neptune. The nearest system with three or more confirmed planets is luyten s star with four known.

The fifth planet from the sun jupiter is a giant gas world that is the most massive planet in our solar system more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined according to nasa. Known as natural satellites they orbit planets dwarf planets asteroids and other debris. The name epsilon eridani stands for the parent star or their sun and it has two probable planets orbiting it. The giant planets grab the most moons.

Our solar system consists of our star the sun and everything bound to it by gravity the planets mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus and neptune dwarf planets such as pluto dozens of moons and millions of asteroids comets and meteoroids. Among the planets moons are more common in the. Click on any planet below to find out more about it. Most of the planets in the solar system have secondary systems of their own being orbited by planetary objects called natural satellites or moons two of which titan and ganymede are larger than the planet mercury and in the case of the four giant planets by planetary rings thin bands of tiny particles that orbit them in unison.

It s actually a system of planets not unlike how we like to call our own solar system. Planets that orbit other stars are referred to as exoplanets. Earth the only planet in our solar system with liquid water on the surface. Planets in our solar system can be divided into two main groups terrestrial planets and gas giants.

Pluto smaller than our own moon has five moons in its orbit including the charon a moon so large it makes pluto wobble.