Solar System

The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by gravity: the eight planets and five dwarf planets, their 173 known moons, and billions of small bodies. The small bodies include asteroids, icy Kuiper belt objects, comets, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust.

In order of their distances from the Sun, the eight planets are: '''Mercury is the innermost planet in the solar system. '''
 * 1) Mercury (57,900,000 km)
 * 2) Venus (108,000,000 km)
 * 3) Earth (150,000,000 km)
 * 4) Mars (228,000,000 km)
 * 5) Jupiter (779,000,000 km)
 * 6) Saturn (1,430,000,000 km)
 * 7) Uranus (2,880,000,000 km)
 * 8) Neptune (4,500,000,000 km)

Earth is the only planet by far in in the solar system that has life.

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system.

The Sun is the largest mass in the solar system.