Solar System

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, the third largest in our solar system (51,488km wide), and the last planet visible with the naked eye. The planet has been visited just once back in …

Saturn is named after the Roman god of fertility and agriculture, whose Greek equivalent was Cronos, the god of time. It is the second biggest planet in the solar system after Jupiter, and is around …

The Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the only planet in the solar system not named after a mythical god. The Earth is also the only place we know of that supports …

The planet Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Its association with the goddess probably stems from it being the brightest object in the night sky, after the Moon, and thus …

Mercury is the both the closest planet to the Sun (4,878km wide), and the smallest planet in the solar system, similar in size to our Moon (3475.6km wide) and 2/5 the size of Earth. Here …

The planet Jupiter is named after the king of the Roman gods whose Greek counterpart was Zeus. It is the biggest planet in our solar system, which is where it derived its association with the …

Our Solar System is 4.6 billion years old and was formed inside a diffuse cloud of interstellar gas and dust called a nebula. At its center is a giant ball of exploding hydrogen (75%) and …