Solar System Explorer
Discover the planets, dwarf planets, and worlds that orbit our Sun
Planets
Mercury
planetThe smallest planet in our solar system and closest to the Sun.
Venus
planetEarth's "sister planet" — similar in size but wildly different.
Earth
planetOur home.
Mars
planetThe Red Planet.
Jupiter
planetThe largest planet in our solar system — a gas giant with no solid surface.
Saturn
planetThe ringed jewel of the solar system.
Uranus
planetAn ice giant that rotates on its side — literally.
Neptune
planetThe windiest planet in the solar system.
Ceres
dwarf planetThe largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Pluto
dwarf planetOnce our ninth planet, now the king of the Kuiper Belt.
Haumea
dwarf planetAn elongated, rapidly spinning dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt shaped like an American football.
Makemake
dwarf planetA dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt named after the Rapanui creation deity.
Eris
dwarf planetThe most massive known dwarf planet and the most distant.
Dwarf Planets
Ceres
Dwarf PlanetThe largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Pluto
Dwarf PlanetOnce our ninth planet, now the king of the Kuiper Belt.
Haumea
Dwarf PlanetAn elongated, rapidly spinning dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt shaped like an American football.
Makemake
Dwarf PlanetA dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt named after the Rapanui creation deity.
Eris
Dwarf PlanetThe most massive known dwarf planet and the most distant.