The Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only known astronomical object to support life. While there is a lot of water all over the Solar System, only Earth has liquid surface water. The ocean covers roughly 71% of the Earth's surface, dwarfing polar ice, lakes, and rivers. The remaining 29% of the Earth's surface is land, which consists of continents and islands. The surface layer of the Earth is made up of several slowly moving tectonic...

Mercury is our solar system's smallest planet and the closest to the sun. The tiny planet has no moon and orbits the sun faster than any other planet, which is why the Romans named it after their swift-footed messenger god. Mercury was also known to the Sumerians at least 5,000 years ago. According to a site connected to NASA's MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging) mission, it was frequently associated with Nabu, the god of writing. Mercury was...

Neptune, along with its cousin Uranus, is our solar system's least-explored planet, having only been visited by a spacecraft once. Despite this, we've discovered more Neptune-sized planets orbiting other stars than any other type of planet. To understand other solar systems and determine whether ours is unique, we must first learn more about the windy blue world in our own backyard.It's unclear where Neptune came from or how it got its water. The disc of dust and gas that formed...

Space is also teeming with various types of radiation that are hazardous to astronauts. The Sun is responsible for a large portion of this infrared and ultraviolet radiation. High energy X-rays, gamma rays, and cosmic rays – particles travelling at near-light speed – arrive from distant star systems.
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Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, named after the Roman mythological king of the gods. The gas colossus Jupiter is a stormy enigma, wrapped in colourful clouds whipped by powerful winds that sweep beneath rings and moons. Jupiter is massive: it has more than twice the mass of all the other planets in the solar system combined. The Great Red Spot, its largest and most famous storm, is twice the width of the Earth. Jupiter's four large moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, helped to revolutionise the way we saw the universe — and our place in it — in 1610, when Galileo discovered them. These were the first observations of celestial bodies circling an object other than Earth, and they supported the Copernican theory that Earth was not the centre of the universe.
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The Moon is the only place on the planet where humans have set foot. The Moon, the brightest and largest object in our night sky, makes Earth a more livable planet by dampening our planet's wobble on its axis, resulting in a relatively stable climate. It also causes tides, which have guided humans for thousands of years. The Moon was most likely formed as a result of a Mars-sized body colliding with Earth. The Moon is the fifth largest of our solar system's 200+ moons orbiting planets. Because no one knew there were other moons until Galileo Galilei discovered four moons orbiting Jupiter in 1610, Earth's only natural satellite is simply referred to as "the Moon."
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