Fill in the Blanks Solar SystemOnline version You will find lots of information about our solar system. by Lina E 1 Each time you look up to the sky and see a star you are looking at a sun in another . If you were on another planet looking back at our system , you would see our sun as a star . It ? s believed that every sun has planets orbiting it . Our Milky Way galaxy has more planets than it has stars . In our solar system we have eight planets : Mercury , Venus , , and Mars are the inner rocky planets . Jupiter and Saturn are the outer gas giants . Uranus and Neptune are the outer ice giants . In recent years , astronomers have designed a new class called the " dwarf planets . " These are smaller worlds , not quite big enough to be considered a standard , and include Pluto . Earth is the third planet from the sun .