🌍 Planets

Silent wanderers orbiting stars. Ancient storytellers of chemistry, gravity, and time.

Basics • Types • Solar System • Exoplanets • Media

What Is a Planet?

A planet is a celestial body that orbits a star, is massive enough for its gravity to make it nearly spherical, and has cleared its orbit of debris. Not all planets are like Earth — some are frozen, some are storms, some are oceans of lava, and some may hold life.

Types of Planets

🌍 Terrestrial Planets • Rocky worlds like Earth and Mars.
🌍 Gas Giants • Massive planets like Jupiter and Saturn.
🌍 Ice Giants • Cold worlds like Uranus and Neptune.
🌍 Super-Earths • Larger rocky planets found outside our solar system.
🌍 Rogue Planets • Planets that drift without a star.

Planets of Our Solar System

Planet Type Fun Fact
MercuryRocky📏 One day equals two years (orbit vs rotation).
VenusRocky🔥 Hottest planet — even hotter than Mercury.
EarthRocky🌊 The only known world with life.
MarsRocky🏔 Home to the tallest volcano in the solar system.
JupiterGas Giant🌪 The Great Red Spot is a centuries-old storm.
SaturnGas Giant💍 Has the most magnificent ring system.
UranusIce Giant🔄 Rotates sideways like a rolling tire.
NeptuneIce Giant💨 Fastest planetary winds in the solar system.

Exoplanets

Exoplanets are planets orbiting stars outside our solar system. Thousands have been discovered — some resemble Earth, while others defy imagination:

  • 🔥 A planet where it rains molten glass.
  • 💎 A possible diamond planet.
  • 🌊 Water worlds without land.
  • 👽 Worlds inside habitable zones where life could exist.

Watch & Explore

🔗 The Solar System Explained
🔗 Exoplanets & The Hunt for Life