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Welcome to SPACEdi's space encyclopedia. Our platform provides a searchable astronomy catalog, deep celestial body indices, and historical spacecraft logs, connecting space enthusiasts, academic students, and research teams to verified scientific facts, object profiles, and direct 3D orbital trajectory maps.

3D Celestial Body Database & Planetary Encyclopedia:
Engineered by ARCHIMEDES Aerospace, this comprehensive data directory bridges verified historical astronomical parameters with a structured, crawlable encyclopedia layout. We provide public users, schools, and astronomy clubs with a centralized lookup index required to scan the raw metrics of the solar system, view historic mission records, and instantly launch individual object files into our main web mapping tools.

Interactive Filtering and Data Extraction for Astronomical Objects:
Our system changes how researchers browse cosmic archives by replacing cluttered, text-heavy data repositories with a clean, interactive discovery matrix. By opening this searchable directory, users can filter cross-referenced content and streamline their space science exploration:

  • Comprehensive Space Catalog: Search and filter through a massive database of over 860 distinct objects, including major planets, rocky moons, icy dwarf planets, near-Earth asteroids, and rogue comets.

  • Spacecraft and Mission Logs: Review deep-space exploration profiles, track the tracking metrics of celebrated probes, and discover historical dataset updates sourced from agencies like NASA, JPL, and ESA.

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Whether you are a classroom teacher gathering physical planetary metrics for an upcoming exam, a student building a profile on Saturn's moon system, or a hobbyist logging tracking records, our index coordinates your deep dives. The encyclopedia repository functions as an open learning engine—offering public search functionality, deeper workspace archiving for active members, and premium academic dataset integration—ensuring everyone has a dedicated space to simulate voyages and expand their cosmic dataset tracking.

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Discover over 860 celestial bodies, spacecraft & Solar System regions.

Explore detailed information, imagery, 3D models and scientific data for planets, moons, asteroids, comets, dwarf planets, Kuiper Belt objects, spacecraft, missions and more. Use the search and filters below to find objects, then view full details, explore in the 3D Solar System, plan missions and build your own research library.

Space Encyclopedia

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Mercury — Illustration

Mercury

planet · Terrestrial Planet

Mercury is the smallest planet and the closest to the Sun. Its heavily cratered surface preserves a long record of impacts and extreme temperature changes.

Mean radius (km)
2439.4
Orbital period (days)
87.969257175

Explore Mercury · View in 3D Solar System

Venus — Illustration

Venus

planet · Terrestrial Planet

Venus is Earth-sized but has a radically different climate: a dense carbon-dioxide atmosphere and runaway greenhouse heating make its surface the hottest of any planet.

Mean radius (km)
6051.8
Orbital period (days)
224.700799215

Explore Venus · View in 3D Solar System

Earth — Illustration

Earth

planet · Terrestrial Planet

Earth is the only world currently known to support life. Its liquid surface oceans, active geology and atmosphere make it the reference world for planetary habitability studies.

Mean radius (km)
6371.0084
Orbital period (days)
365.25635535

Explore Earth · View in 3D Solar System

Mars — Illustration

Mars

planet · Terrestrial Planet

Mars preserves evidence of a wetter ancient environment, including dried river channels, lake basins and minerals formed in water. It is one of the most extensively explored worlds

Mean radius (km)
3389.5
Orbital period (days)
686.9795859000001

Explore Mars · View in 3D Solar System

Jupiter — Illustration

Jupiter

planet · Gas Giant

Jupiter is the largest planet and a natural laboratory for giant-planet physics. Its enormous magnetic environment and changing atmosphere have been studied by successive spacecraf

Mean radius (km)
69911
Orbital period (days)
4332.82012875

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Saturn — Illustration

Saturn

planet · Gas Giant

Saturn is famous for its extensive ring system, whose countless ice-rich particles orbit individually. The Cassini mission transformed our understanding of Saturn, its rings and it

Mean radius (km)
58232
Orbital period (days)
10755.6986445

Explore Saturn · View in 3D Solar System

Uranus — Illustration

Uranus

planet · Ice Giant

Uranus rotates with an extreme axial tilt, producing unusual seasonal geometry. Its faint rings and diverse moons make it an important comparative giant-planet system.

Mean radius (km)
25362
Orbital period (days)
30687.1530015

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Neptune — Illustration

Neptune

planet · Ice Giant

Neptune is the most distant of the eight planets and has some of the fastest winds measured in the Solar System. Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have visited it closely.

Mean radius (km)
24622
Orbital period (days)
60190.029630000005

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Pluto — Illustration

Pluto

dwarf planet · Sun

Pluto became a major scientific landmark when New Horizons returned the first close images in 2015, revealing mountains of water ice, nitrogen glaciers and a complex atmosphere.

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Moon [Earth] — Illustration

Moon [Earth]

moon · Earth

Earth’s Moon is the only extraterrestrial body humans have walked on. Apollo samples and modern orbital missions have made it a benchmark for studying planetary formation, impacts

Mean radius (km)
1737.4
Orbital period (days)
27.322

Explore Moon [Earth] · View in 3D Solar System

Sun — Illustration

Sun

star

The Sun is the star at the centre of our planetary system and contains almost all of its mass. Its magnetic activity drives the solar wind and much of the space weather that reache

Explore Sun · View in 3D Solar System

Juno spacecraft prepared for environmental testing

Juno

spacecraft · NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Studies Jupiter’s atmosphere, interior, magnetic field, moons and rings. Its highly elliptical polar orbit changed through the mission; NASA records a 33-day final orbital period a

Launch date
2011-08-05
Days since launch
5570

Explore Juno · View in 3D Solar System

MAVEN — spacecraft

MAVEN

spacecraft · NASA

Investigated how Mars loses atmospheric gas to space.

Launch date
2013-11-18
Days since launch
4734

Explore MAVEN

SOHO — spacecraft

SOHO

spacecraft · European Space Agency / NASA

Studies the Sun’s interior, atmosphere and solar wind from the Sun–Earth L1 region.

Launch date
1995-12-02
Days since launch
11295

Explore SOHO · View in 3D Solar System

TESS — spacecraft

TESS

spacecraft · NASA / Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Searches for planets by measuring dips in stellar brightness.

Launch date
2018-04-18
Days since launch
3122

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Ariel at Voyager Closest Approach

Ariel

moon · Uranus

A natural satellite of Uranus. Its physical properties and orbital motion are shown from the available catalogue and ephemeris data.

Mean radius (km)
578.9
Orbital period (days)
2.520379

Explore Ariel · View in 3D Solar System

Atlas Ring Shadow Premiere

Atlas

moon · Saturn

A natural satellite of Saturn. Its physical properties and orbital motion are shown from the available catalogue and ephemeris data.

Mean radius (km)
15.1
Orbital period (days)
0.604602

Explore Atlas · View in 3D Solar System

Callisto Southern Hemisphere as Viewed by NIMS & SSI

Callisto

moon · Jupiter

Callisto is one of the most heavily cratered large bodies in the Solar System. Its ancient surface and evidence for a subsurface ocean make it an important comparison with the youn

Mean radius (km)
2410.3
Orbital period (days)
16.69044

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Ceres in Color

Ceres

dwarf planet · Sun

Ceres is the largest object in the main asteroid belt and the only dwarf planet in the inner Solar System. NASA’s Dawn mission revealed bright salt deposits and evidence of a water

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Deimos — Illustration

Deimos

moon · Mars

A natural satellite of Mars. Its physical properties and orbital motion are shown from the available catalogue and ephemeris data.

Mean radius (km)
6.2
Orbital period (days)
1.2625

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Crescent Dione

Dione

moon · Saturn

A natural satellite of Saturn. Its physical properties and orbital motion are shown from the available catalogue and ephemeris data.

Mean radius (km)
561.4
Orbital period (days)
2.736916

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Sliver of Enceladus

Enceladus

moon · Saturn

Enceladus is a small icy moon whose south-polar fractures eject plumes of water and other material from a subsurface ocean, making it a key target in the search for habitable envir

Mean radius (km)
252.1
Orbital period (days)
1.370218

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Europa — Illustration

Europa

moon · Jupiter

Europa has a water-ice shell over a likely global saltwater ocean. Its potential habitability has made it one of the highest-priority destinations for planetary science.

Mean radius (km)
1560.8
Orbital period (days)
3.525463

Explore Europa · View in 3D Solar System

Ganymede — Illustration

Ganymede

moon · Jupiter

Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System and the only moon known to generate its own intrinsic magnetic field. Evidence for a deep salty ocean makes it a major target for m

Mean radius (km)
2631.2
Orbital period (days)
7.155588

Explore Ganymede · View in 3D Solar System

Haumea — Illustration

Haumea

dwarf planet · Sun

Haumea is an unusually fast-spinning, elongated dwarf planet with a thin ring and two known moons. Its shape and rapid rotation make it one of the most distinctive large trans-Nept

Explore Haumea · View in 3D Solar System

Eyeing Iapetus

Iapetus

moon · Saturn

A natural satellite of Saturn. Its physical properties and orbital motion are shown from the available catalogue and ephemeris data.

Mean radius (km)
734.3
Orbital period (days)
79.331002

Explore Iapetus · View in 3D Solar System

Io — Illustration

Io

moon · Jupiter

Io is the most volcanically active world known. Tidal heating driven by Jupiter and its neighbouring moons powers enormous volcanic eruptions and reshapes the surface.

Mean radius (km)
1821.49
Orbital period (days)
1.762732

Explore Io · View in 3D Solar System

Blemished by Mimas

Mimas

moon · Saturn

A natural satellite of Saturn. Its physical properties and orbital motion are shown from the available catalogue and ephemeris data.

Mean radius (km)
198.2
Orbital period (days)
0.942422

Explore Mimas · View in 3D Solar System

Uranus Satellite - Miranda

Miranda

moon · Uranus

A natural satellite of Uranus. Its physical properties and orbital motion are shown from the available catalogue and ephemeris data.

Mean radius (km)
235.8
Orbital period (days)
1.413479

Explore Miranda · View in 3D Solar System

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