Bodies

10 bodies

  • Pluto

    Pluto

    The dwarf planet that turned out to have mountains of water ice and a heart-shaped glacier.

  • Neptune

    Neptune

    The windiest world in the solar system, found by arithmetic before telescopes.

  • Mercury

    Mercury

    The smallest planet: airless, cratered, and swinging 600 degrees between noon and midnight.

  • Mars

    Mars

    The cold desert next door, and the most-visited planet beyond Earth.

  • Uranus

    Uranus

    The sideways planet: its axis lies nearly in its orbital plane.

  • Venus

    Venus

    Earth's twin in size only — a runaway greenhouse under acid clouds.

  • Europa

    Europa

    An ice shell over a global ocean holding more water than all of Earth's seas.

  • Earth

    Earth

    The only world known to host life, and the only one with liquid water at the surface.

  • Titan

    Titan

    Saturn's largest moon: a thick atmosphere and rivers of liquid methane.

  • The Moon

    The Moon

    The only other world humans have walked on.