The Solar System
The Sun, planets, and dwarf planets bound by the Sun's gravity.
- Asteroid
10 Hygiea
A large, dark asteroid in the outer main belt.
- Asteroid
101955 Bennu
A near-Earth asteroid sampled by NASA's OSIRIS-REx.
- Asteroid
16 Psyche
A metal-rich main-belt asteroid and NASA mission target.
- Asteroid
162173 Ryugu
A near-Earth asteroid sampled by Japan's Hayabusa2.
- Asteroid
2 Pallas
One of the most massive asteroids in the main belt.
- Asteroid
25143 Itokawa
A near-Earth asteroid sampled by Japan's Hayabusa.
- Asteroid
4 Vesta
One of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, visited by NASA's Dawn.
- Asteroid
433 Eros
A near-Earth asteroid orbited by NASA's NEAR Shoemaker.
- Comet
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
A periodic comet orbited and landed on by ESA's Rosetta mission.
- Asteroid
99942 Apophis
A near-Earth asteroid studied for its close approaches to Earth.
- Dwarf planet
Ceres
Ceres is a dwarf planet and the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
- Comet
Comet Hale–Bopp
A long-period comet that was widely visible to the naked eye in 1997.
- Comet
Comet Hyakutake
A comet that passed very close to Earth in 1996.
- Comet
Comet NEOWISE
A long-period comet discovered in 2020 that became a bright naked-eye object in the Northern Hemisphere sky.
- Comet
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
A comet that broke apart and collided with Jupiter in 1994.
- Planet
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only world known to support life.
- Dwarf planet
Eris
Eris is a distant dwarf planet in the scattered disc of the outer Solar System.
- Dwarf planet
Haumea
Haumea is a dwarf planet located beyond the orbit of Neptune in the Kuiper Belt.
- Planet
Jupiter
- Dwarf planet
Makemake
Makemake is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Neptune.
- Planet
Mars
- Planet
Mercury
Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and the closest to the Sun.
- Planet
Neptune
Neptune is the eighth and most distant known planet from the Sun in the Solar System.
- Dwarf planet
Pluto
Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Neptune.
- Planet
Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and is known for its prominent ring system.
- Star
The Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System, around which the planets and other bodies orbit.
- Planet
Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and is classified as an ice giant.
- Planet
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun and is similar in size to Earth.