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What Is a Year on Other Planets?

By VOKZAN | Updated 2025
<2>It Depends on Orbit

A year is how long it takes a planet to orbit the sun. Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit once. Neptune takes 165 Earth years!

It's Relative

A year on Pluto is 248 Earth years. If you lived on Pluto, you'd be less than three years old in Pluto years since it was discovered!