How long have our planets had our current names?

Uranus is the only planet with the name of a Greek deity, and it followed a symmetry: According to classical history, Jupiter's father was Saturn, and Saturn's father was Uranus. So the order in which the planets orbit the sun makes it right to go son-father-grandfather. read more

Three of the planets in the solar system are currently visible in the night sky in June 2017. They are: Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. read more

Perhaps the planet received this name because it's so far from the Sun that it is in perpetual darkness. Natural Satellites. For those moons have been known for a long time (such as the Galilean moons of Jupiter), the names were assigned from mythological characters. read more