Food, Health & Nature

Planets API

Physical fact sheets for every planet in the solar system, sourced from NASA data.

Request Headers

Name Required Description
X-RapidAPI-Key required Your RapidAPI key. Get one free.
X-RapidAPI-Host required planets.p.rapidapi.com

Endpoints

GET /v1/planets

Physical fact sheet for a solar-system planet

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDefaultConstraints
namestringrequired—matches \S

Code Examples

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://planets.p.rapidapi.com/v1/planets?name=example' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: planets.p.rapidapi.com'

Interactive Example

planets
$ GET /v1/planets?name=mars
{"name":"Mars","mass_kg":6.417e23,"radius_km":3389.5,"gravity_ms2":3.71,"day_hours":24.7,"year_days":687.0,"distance_from_sun_km":2.279e8,"moons":2,"temperature_c":-65.0}

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