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; …
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Oct 21, 2025 · 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 | Proteus – NASA Solar System Exploration
Overview Proteus is one of the largest of Neptune's known moons, although it is not as big as Triton. The moon has an odd box-like shape and if it had just a little more mass it would be able to transform …
In Depth | Sun – NASA Solar System Exploration
Namesake The Sun has been called by many names. The Latin word for Sun is “sol,” which is the main adjective for all things Sun-related: solar. Helios, the Sun god in ancient Greek mythology, lends his …
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In Depth | Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration
In the outer solar system, the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and the ice giants Uranus and Neptune have dozens of moons. As these planets grew in the early solar system, they were able to capture smaller …
In Depth | Neptune Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration
Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper (for whom the Kuiper Belt was named) found Neptune's third-largest moon, Nereid, in 1949. He missed Proteus, the second-largest because it's too dark and …
In 1943, astronomer Kenneth Edgeworth hypothesized that many small, icy bodies exist in a disc in the region beyond Neptune, having condensed from widely spaced ancient material, and that from time …
In Depth | Kuiper Belt – NASA Solar System Exploration
Instead, Neptune's gravity stirred up this region of space so much that the small, icy objects there weren't able to coalesce into a large planet. The amount of material in the Kuiper Belt today might be …