2025年1月14日 · Our home planet Earth is a rocky, terrestrial planet. It has a solid and active surface with mountains, valleys, canyons, plains and so much more. Earth is special because it is an ocean planet. Water covers 70% of Earth's surface.

Learn all about our amazing planet with our facts about the Earth! How big is Earth? Why do we have day and night, and four seasons? How old is the Earth?

Every planet in the solar system is named after a god or goddess from Greek or Roman mythology except for Earth. Earth means “the ground” in Old English and German. Physical Features. Size: 7,926 miles (12,756 kilometers) in diameter. Surface: Water and land. Water covers about 70 percent of Earth’s surface.

Earth, our home planet, the third planet from the sun, is the only place in the known universe inhabited by living things. Our Earth facts for kids will give you lots of unique and interesting facts about our home planet.

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and our home planet. Earth revolves around the Sun, but its average distance from it is 149 million kilometers / 93 million miles. In astronomy, this is 1 AU – or an astronomical unit.

The Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets at 3,959 mi/6,371 km radius, and the fifth largest overall planet in our solar system. Earth is an average distance of 93 million mi/150 million km from the sun or one AU (astronomical unit).

BBC Earth Kids combines fun facts, amazing creatures, your favourite faces and a whole load of cool stuff about our awesome planet. Learn and Explore now.