43-million miles from the Sun
Planet Mercury
The smallest planet in our solar system and nearest to the Sun, Mercury is only slightly larger than Earth's Moon. From the surface of Mercury, the Sun would appear more than three times as large as it does when viewed from Earth, and the sunlight would be as much as seven times brighter.
67-million miles from the Sun
Planet Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun and Earth's closest planetary neighbor. Even though Mercury is closer to the Sun, Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system. Its thick atmosphere is full of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, and it has clouds of sulfuric acid.
93-million miles from the Sun
Planet Earth
Planet Earth, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, it is the only planet in the known universe confirmed to host life.
Earth has a radius of 3,959 miles, it is the fifth largest planet in our solar system, and it's the only one known planet to have liquid water on its surface. 4.54 Billion years
142-million miles from the Sun
Planet Mars
Planet Mars, is the fourth planet from the Sun – a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. Mars is also a dynamic planet with seasons, polar ice caps, canyons, extinct volcanoes, and evidence that it was even more active in the past.
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886-million miles from the Sun
Planet Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine and a half times that of Earth.
It has only one-eighth the average density of Earth, but is over 95 times more massive.
1.8-billion miles from the Sun
Planet Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun and the third largest planet in the solar system. Although Uranus is visible to the naked eye, it was long mistaken as a star because of the planet's dimness and slow orbit.
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2.8-billion miles from the Sun
Planet Neptune
Neptune is the farthest and eighth planet from the sun, but it is not the coldest. Our solar system's blue gas giant is far larger than Earth, at more than 17 times Earth's mass and nearly 58 times Earth's volume.
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3.7-billion miles from the Sun
Dwarf Planet Pluto
Pluto is a complex world of ice mountains and frozen plains. Once considered the ninth planet, Pluto is the best known of a new class of worlds called dwarf planets.
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