Welcome to Planets for Kids I really hope you enjoy the information that I have provided on this website. You will find lots of information about our solar system with lots of questions and answers and games for you to play.

TERRESTRIAL PLANETS. Each time you look up to the sky and see a star you are looking at a sun in another galaxy. If you were on another planet looking back at our solar system, you would see our sun as a star. Read More

The mission of the New Horizons craft was developed to collect images and data of the dwarf planet Pluto, as well as add information so that we could understand the edge of the solar system. Read More

Constellations. Throughout time, various civilizations and cultures have looked up into the night sky to see the constellations. Read More

The planets in our solar system are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. There are also dwarf planets such as Pluto, dozens of moons and millions of asteroids, comets and meteoroids of all shapes and sizes.

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Beyond our Earth, Mars is the one planet that has had the most spacecraft, research, and exploration. There have been 68 missions that have launched to Mars and they include flybys, probes, orbiters, and rovers.

In our solar system, there is only one star that we know of – the sun! Our solar system is very unique in that is only has one star. Most other solar systems have at least two stars. These are called binary systems. Some solar systems with as many as six stars have been observed … Continue reading "How Many Stars are in the Solar System?"

Constellations are groups of stars in a particular pattern, as seen from earth. If you went to another planet, you wouldn’t see the same constellations, in fact you would see totally different patterns and groups of stars. The star patterns that we see also doesn’t mean that these are stars that are all in one place.

Facts about Venus for Kids: Venus has over 1,600 volcanoes, the most of any planet within the solar system. It takes Venus 243 Earth days to make one complete rotation. Compared to Earth’s 365 days, it takes Venus only 224.7 Earth days to make one rotation around the sun.