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Our solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago. The four planets closest to the Sun Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are called the terrestrial planets because they have solid, rocky surfaces. Two of the outer planets beyond the orbit of Mars Jupiter and Saturn are known as gas giants the more distant Uranus and Neptune are called ice giants.

Planetary Fact Sheet in U.S. Units Planetary Fact Sheet - Values compared to Earth Index of Planetary Fact Sheets - More detailed fact sheets for each planet Notes on the Fact Sheets - Explanations of the values and headings in the fact sheet Schoolyard Solar System - Demonstration scale model of the solar system for the classroom

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Eight planets have been discovered in our solar system. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are the planets closest to the Sun. They are called the inner planets. The inner planets are made up mostly of rock. The outer planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are large balls of gases with rings around them.

Our solar system has eight planets, and five dwarf planets - all located in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy called the Orion Arm.

The planetary system we call home is located in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. 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. Beyond our own solar system, there

Planets In 2006, subsequent to several discoveries of several large outer Solar System objects beyond Pluto one of which was found to be even larger than Pluto it was decided that a planet should be defined as an object which a orbits the sun, and b is massive enough not only to coalesce itself into a nearly spherical shape, but also to gravitationally dominate its region of the solar

The solar system has one star, eight planets, five dwarf planets, at least 290 moons, more than 1.3 million asteroids, and about 3,900 comets.

NASA's Solar System Interactive also known as the Orrery is a live look at the solar system, its planets, moons, comets, and asteroids, as well as the real-time locations of dozens of NASA missions.