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In Depth | Our Solar System – NASA Solar System Exploration Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids
Planet Compare - NASA Solar System Exploration NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system
In Depth | Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration Of the terrestrial (rocky) planets of the inner solar system, neither Mercury nor Venus have any moons at all, Earth has one and Mars has its two small moons In the outer solar system, the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and the ice giants Uranus and Neptune have dozens of moons
In Depth | Asteroids – NASA Solar System Exploration The orbits of asteroids can be changed by Jupiter's massive gravity – and by occasional close encounters with Mars or other objects These encounters can knock asteroids out of the main belt, and hurl them into space in all directions across the orbits of the other planets
In Depth | Earths Moon – NASA Solar System Exploration The leading theory of the Moon's origin is that a Mars-sized body collided with Earth about 4 5 billion years ago The resulting debris from both Earth and the impactor accumulated to form our natural satellite 239,000 miles (384,000 kilometers) away