Explore Our Planets And Dwarf Planets Facts, And Learn The Mysteries Of Space.

Earth is the only planet not named after a Greek or Roman deity.

The Earth has 2 additional asteroids locked into a co-orbital orbit with it. They are called 3753 Cruithne and 2002 AA29. 3753 Cruithne is 5km across and it is sometimes called Earth's second moon, it doesn't actually orbit the earth but it has a synchronised orbit with it making it look as if it's following the Earth in orbit. 2002 AA29 is 60 meters across and makes a horse shoe orbit around the Earth bringing it close every 95 years.

A day on Jupiter is about 9 hours 55 minutes making it the shortest in the solar sytem.

The red spot on Jupiter is a storm that has raged on for 350 years, it is so large that 3 Earths could perfectly fit in it.

The planet Psr J1719- 1483 B is a planet that was discovered to orbit around a pulsar. A pulsar is an extremely compact and dense neutron star that is about the size of a large city.

Uranus is tilted on its side.

Though it has a surface temperature of 167 degrees Celsius, there is ice on Mercury; this is due to shadowed craters and the axis of Mercury's rotation.

If we were to put the real scales of the planet sizes and their distances from the sun, all the nine plantes will be dots on paper.

J1407B is an exoplanet that is also refereed to as a super Saturn, the reason is because its circumplanetary rings are 640 times larger than Saturn's rings.

The planet GJ 1214b is a planet that has no land on it. The entire exoplanet is a water world with no land on surface.

It rains rubies and saphires on the exoplanet Hat-P-7b.

There is a planet that is completely covered and made up of diamonds. Cancri E is a an exoplanet that is composed of carbon and due to a pressure and surface temperature of 2400 degrees celsius, it is believed to be covered in diamonds.

HD 189733b is a planet slightly larger than Jupiter where it rains glass. Wind speed also reaches 5,400 miles(8688.6 kilometers) per hour.

The planet Wasp-12b is one of the darkest known exoplanets ever discovered, it is so dark that it traps over 90 percent of the light that falls on it. This planet sucks the light off from its star.

Ogle-2005-Blg is a one of the coldest exoplanets ever discovered with temperatures plunging to -220 degrees celsius.

Apart from Cancri-E the exoplanet Tres-2b reflects only 1 percent of the light that falls on it.

There are only 5 recognised dwarf planets in the solar system.

Eris is claimed to be the largest of the dwarf planets.

The exoplanet 2MASS J2126-8140 is a planet that is situated about 600 billion miles from its host star, a red dwarf star making it to have the longest and widest orbit ever discovered for a planetary object.

GJ-504b is a planet that is colored pink. Due to it being a recently formed planet the surface appears to have a magenta color shade.