The Planets
A tour of our solar system — from scorched Mercury to wind-torn Neptune and the dwarf worlds beyond — in real spacecraft imagery.Fly the solar system in 3D →
Terrestrial Planets
The four small, rocky worlds of the inner solar system.
First planet from the Sun
Mercury
The fastest, smallest planet — orbits the Sun every 88 days.
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Second planet from the Sun
Venus
Hottest planet in the solar system — a runaway greenhouse hellscape.
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Third planet from the Sun
Earth
The only world we know that holds life.
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Fourth planet from the Sun
Mars
Today, three working rovers and a helicopter sit on this surface.
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Asteroid · Main Belt
Vesta
The second-largest body in the main belt — Dawn orbited it in 2011–12.
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433 Eros
NEAR Shoemaker made the first-ever asteroid landing here in 2001.
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Itokawa
Hayabusa returned the first asteroid sample from this rubble pile in 2010.
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Ryugu
Hayabusa2 sampled this spinning-top carbonaceous asteroid, returned 2020.
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Bennu
OSIRIS-REx grabbed a sample at Nightingale crater, delivered to Earth 2023.
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67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Rosetta orbited and Philae landed on this rubber-duck comet in 2014.
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Arrokoth
New Horizons flew past this primordial contact binary in 2019 — the most distant world explored.
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1I/'Oumuamua
The first confirmed interstellar visitor — found in October 2017 already racing away from the Sun. A dark, elongated shard from another star on an unbound path that will never return.
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2I/Borisov
The first clearly cometary interstellar visitor — found in 2019 with an active coma and tail. A comet from another planetary system, passing through ours just once on a steeply hyperbolic orbit.
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The two colossal worlds of hydrogen and helium, ringed and storm-wracked.
Ice Giants
The distant pale worlds of water, ammonia and methane ice.
Dwarf Worlds
Worlds that didn't clear their orbits — but are worlds all the same.
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