The star around which the planets revolve, from which they receive heat and light, and which has an average distance from the earth of about 93,000,000 miles (150,000,000 kilometres), a diameter of 864,000 miles (1,390,000 kilometres), and a mass 332,000 times greater than Earth.
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Mercury is the smallest and hottest planet in the Solar System. Its orbital period around the Sun of 88 days is the shortest of all the planets in the Solar System. It is named after the Roman god Mercury, a.k.a the messenger.
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It has the longest rotation period of any planet in the Solar System. It is named after the Roman goddess of Love & Beauty
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only object in the Universe known to harbor life, which is the reason why there are billions of people living there.
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System. It is named after the Roman god of War
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a giant planet with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. It is named after the King of all Roman gods
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth. It is named after the Roman god of agriculture
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. It is named after the Roman god of the sky
Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System. In the Solar System, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is named after the Roman god of the sea
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