Solar System Family

The Solar System comprises the Sun, which is the center, and all objects that are held around the Sun by its gravity, including eight planets, five dwarf planets, no less than 165 satellites, and hundreds of millions of small Solar System bodies such as asteroids, comets, Kuiper belt bodies, and interstellar dust. The eight planets form an important part of the Solar System. Listed based on their distance from the Sun, they are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.