Fictional planets of the Solar System

Vulcan

• "Vulcan's Workshop", short story by Harl Vincent: a penal colony is located on Vulcan.
• "At the Center of Gravity", short story by Ross Rocklynne: two people are trapped inside a hollow Vulcan.
• Vulcan is part of the Solar System in the Captain Future series. Despite being said to be covered in magma, in Outlaw World it is discovered that it is hollow and inhabited inside.
• Mission to Mercury, science fiction novel by Hugh Walters. During the return of the first manned flight to Mercury, a crew member notices a dark spot moving across the Sun. Since the spot is between them and the Sun and appears to be moving to the naked eye, it can only be the previously-hypothetical Vulcan; it must be moving rapidly and extremely close to the Sun.
• Vulcan is visited in the 1882 novel by Nunsowe Green.
• Sailor Moon musicals : A planet called Vulcan along with its moon, Astarte is said to be on the other side of the Sun.

Counter-Earth

Books

• Korad by Felix Mondejar: A Counter-Earth planet inhabited by an advanced alien race that has guided humankind through several turning points in history by mistake, miscalculation and underestimation of humankind's ability to see meaning where there isn't any. The planet is used in the Korad trilogy of Science Fiction-comedy books by Cuban writer Felix Móndejar.
• Planetoid 127 by Edgar Wallace: A short novel of communication by radio with another world on the other side of the Sun in Earth's orbit.
• Antigeos series of novels including The Other Side of the Sun, The Other Half of the Planet and Down to Earth by Paul Capon : Set on the counter-Earth Antigeos.
• La Dixième Planète by C. H. Badet
• Out of this World by Ben Barzman, also published as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Echo X: The two worlds were exact twins until they diverged in the early 20th century.
• La Planète ignorée by René Guillot
• Gor novels by John Norman: Sword and planet adventure on a counter-Earth called "Gor".
• Aïo, terre invisible by Christian Grenier
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson: The leaders of the Illuminati may have originated on a counter-Earth named Vulcan and come to Earth on flying saucers from Mars via Saturn.
• The X12 series of books by Olof Möller prominently features a counter-Earth called Anti-Tellus.
• Zillikian is a counter-Earth featured in the Bunduki series by J. T. Edson.
• Rejsen til planeten Droj by :da:Thorstein Thomsen|Thorstein Thomsen features the inhabitants of planet Droj inviting humans to visit them. The children who arrive on the planet see almost a mirror image of Earth and learn about the dangers Earth may also face eventually.
• Les Cités obscures, graphic novel series by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters: stories set in a group of city-states on a counter-Earth.
• Countersolar! by Richard A. Lupoff, a sequel to Circumpolar!: A parody in which the Earth is a disk rather than a ball, and a lab accident creates a counter-Earth that's initially an exact duplicate of the original.

  Comics

• Twin Earths, comic strip by Alden McWilliams and Oskar Lebeck. The counter-Earth Terra orbits opposite Earth. The daily strip featured Vana, a Terran spy living on Earth to keep tabs on our technology, and Garry Verth, an FBI agent. In the Sunday strip, a young Texan named Punch explored Terra with its young prince Torro. This strip mostly consisted of travelogue-like views of Terran life; for example the fact that in their liberated society, women, who constituted 92% of the population, ran things.
• Since 1972, Marvel Comics has published stories featuring three versions of a counter-Earth.
• Judge Dredd, comic strip in the 2000 AD comic anthology. Hestia is a planet which orbits the Sun at nearly the same distance as the Earth but at such an angle to the ecliptic plane that it was not discovered until 2009. It is inhabited by a small colony of humans and an intelligent indigenous population who keep their distance from the colonists. The planet is also home of the lethal Dune Sharks.
• New Krypton and story arcs in the DC Comics Superman series: New Krypton is a counter-Earth created by Kryptonian scientists using Brainiac's technology.
• Terra Nova. In the Danish weekly comic 'Willy på eventyr', a continuation of the British 'Rob the Rover', Willy and his crew of spaceship SM-4 journeys to the counter-earth Terra Nova, home of several civilisations.
• Non Sequitur. Jeffrey's alien friend Lars is from Mars 3.5, a planet described as "Earth's twin". Jeffrey and Danae visit it, and it is indicated that Captain Eddie has paid a visit to this planet as well.
• Tom the Dancing Bug, a satirical comic strip by Ruben Bolling. The strip occasionally features Counter-Earth, a "strange world that is not quite the opposite of our own...but somewhat dissimilar in certain ways."

  Television and radio

• The Adventures of Superman radio series, episode 1 : the planet Krypton is said to be "situated on the other side of the Sun" from the Earth.
• The 2000 Plus episode "Worlds Apart" involves a planet "exactly opposite the Earth, on the other side of the sun" named Vesta.
• Beyond the Sun/The Hidden Planet, a scripted but unfilmed early story for Doctor Who, was set on a counter-Earth that was almost an exact duplicate of Earth. This idea was reused in the original series as Mondas, the original home of the Cybermen.
• Sport Billy, 1979 television cartoon: the eponymous hero is from the counter-Earth Olympus, populated by athletic god-like beings.
• Dinosaucers, 1987 television cartoon: premised on intelligent dinosaurs coming to Earth from a counter-Earth called Reptilon.
• Lexx, television series : The twin planets "Fire" and "Water" are on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth.
• Spider-Man Unlimited, 1999 animated series: Spider-Man tries to rescue John Jameson on a counter-Earth.
• In a Saturday Night Live skit, Father Guido Sarducci announced a planet on the other side of the Sun, exactly like Earth except that they eat corn on the cob with the corn positioned north–south instead of west–east.

  Film

• Warning from Space or Mysterious Satellite, 1956 science fiction tokusatsu film by Daiei. "Planet 'R'" is on a collision course with Earth. One-eyed, starfish-shaped aliens from the counter-Earth "Paira" take on human forms to warn the earth about the impending disaster.
• Gamera vs. Guiron, 1969 tokusatsu kaiju film: Gamera travels to the counter-Earth "Terra" in order to save a pair of kidnapped children.
• Doppelgänger, 1969 film by Gerry Anderson. Counter-Earth is identical to Earth in every respect except that left and right are reversed. Marketed in the US as Journey to the Far Side of the Sun.
• The Stranger, 1973 film. Terra, the film's counter-Earth, is culturally and evolutionarily identical to Earth in nearly every respect; the most obvious differences are Terra's three moons and the fact that everyone is left-handed. However, it appears to have diverged significantly from Earth sometime in the last century or two. An astronaut from Earth crashes there, and discovers a strange dictatorship known as the Perfect Order. Technology is about the same, although geared for such purposes as monitoring of the population to assure adherence to the Order
• Another Earth, a 2011 film written by and starring Brit Marling about the discovery of an identical Earth.

  Other

• , role-playing game: A planetoid called Autochthonia exists in the counter-Earth position in the game's cosmology. This is the location of The Computer which is central to Iteration X, the cybernetic convention of mages.
• Antikhthon, a piece of music by Iannis Xenakis

  Phaëton

• Seola, novel by Ann Eliza Smith: mentions the existence of a "Wan Planet between the red world and the green ", and that its destruction led to the deluge of Genesis.
• Et la planète sauta..., novel by B. R. Bruss, tells of a planet that once existed between Mars and Jupiter called Rhama.
• The manga series Terra Formars regularly mentions a planet named Rahab that once existed between Mars and Jupiter that was shattered following a cometary impact.
• "Time Wants a Skeleton", short story by Ross Rocklynne: characters travel through time to Phaeton, an Earth-like planet, just before it was destroyed in a collision with another planet.
• "The Lost World of Time", a Captain Future story by Edmond Hamilton: characters travel through time to the planet Katain and rescue the inhabitants before it was destroyed. Adapted to Japanese anime in 1978, where the planet is named Prometheus.
• Space Cadet, juvenile novel by Robert A. Heinlein. The hero's first assignment after graduation from the Space Patrol's academy is to a ship charting the intractable Asteroid Belt. He has the luck to be involved in a startling discovery: not only is the Belt proven to be what is left of an exploded planet Lucifer, but also remains are found of that planet's inhabitants, who had been responsible for its destruction.
• In "Letter to a Phoenix",, a short story by Fredric Brown, it is mentioned that one of the human civilizations which existed before has destroyed the fifth planet, named Skora.
• Return to Mars juvenile novel by W. E. Johns. The fifth planet, called Kraka, was accidentally destroyed in a nuclear experiment carried out by its inhabitants.
• Chikyu Boeigun. A newly discovered asteroid in the asteroid belt is the Mysterians' home planet, Mysteroid, rendered uninhabitable as the result of a nuclear war.
• Rogue in Space, novel by Fredric Brown. A living, intelligent, asteroid collects all the asteroids in the Belt and forms them into a planet with himself at its centre. In this variant, the fifth planet exists not in the past but in the future.
• Fallen Star, novel by James Blish. The fifth planet, called Nferetet, may have been destroyed by the Martians because they saw its inhabitants as a threat.
• Stranger in a Strange Land, novel by Robert A. Heinlein. An unnamed fifth planet was destroyed by Martians after they deemed its inhabitants too barbaric to be allowed to exist. " encountered the people of the fifth planet ... and had taken action; asteroid ruins were all that remained."
• In Das Zeitauge, a novel by :de:H. G. Ewers|H. G. Ewers, Zeut, the fifth planet of the Sun in the Perry Rhodan Universe, was destroyed by aggressive aliens, 50,068 B.C.. Also in the anthology Lemuria.
• Faety, 1989 novel by Alexander Kazantsev. In this adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the asteroid belt is the debris of Faena, the fifth planet of the Solar System located just between Mars and Jupiter. Faena was destroyed thousands of years before the first civilizations of Earth appeared, following the activation of a doomsday device-like thermonuclear super weapon built by the native sentient species and the few of them who survived the explosion had to seek refuge on Mars and Earth. The homo sapiens genus is thus assumed to be a mixture of local DNA and the Faetan genes.
• "The Ultimate Crime", a short story by Isaac Asimov, was actually based on the author's essay to qualify for entry into the Baker Street Irregulars, a group of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts. In it, he speculates that Professor Moriarty's The Dynamics of an Asteroid was a scholarly work that attempted to compute how the hypothetical fifth planet had exploded, and how to repeat the effect on Earth.
• Inherit the Stars, first in the Giants series of novels by James P. Hogan. The planet Minerva exploded due to nuclear war 50,000 years ago to form the asteroid belt with the largest remnant thrown out of Minerva's orbit to form Pluto. It was home to two intelligent races: the Giants 25 million years ago, and the Lunarians 50,000 years ago. Also mentioned in the novels The Gentle Giants of Ganymede, Giants' Star, Entoverse and Mission to Minerva.
• In the Doctor Who story Image of the Fendahl the fifth planet was the home of the Fendahl, a malevolent entity that consumed all life. The Time Lords placed the planet in a time loop in the hope of imprisoning the creature, but it escaped and arrived on Earth 12 million years ago in the form of a human skull.
• Andromeda Stories by Keiko Takemiya & Ryu Mitsuse: a pair of robot characters who hail from Phaeton have been sent to explore the Andromeda galaxy, and find their home planet destroyed upon their return.
• Gall Force 2: Destruction, depicts the 5th planet, Damia, is in fact a massive super weapon, the System Destroyer, intended to act as a trap to destroy the two opposing forces. It is sabotaged and destroyed, resulting in the current asteroid field.
• Starting with a Swamp Thing story by Doug Wheeler in 1991, stories from DC Comics proposed that a former fifth planet was the original home of all fungal life, which migrated to Earth on a meteorite.
• Mutineers' Moon, novel by David Weber. The asteroid belt was a planet that was geologically unstable. The Achuultani attacked the planet with kinetic weapons, shattering it, and then attacked Earth, resulting in the extinction of the dinosaurs.
• Final Fantasy IV, video game. The fifth planet is populated by a race of highly advanced humanoids who are aware that their planet is unstable. Thus they travel to Earth and craft a second moon to live on as the fifth planet explodes to create the asteroid belt. The character FuSoYa is a member of this race, which is called the Lunarians due to their living on the moon.
• End of an Era, Robert J Sawyer. A time travel novel that explores the idea that Phaeton was not yet destroyed when this story takes place.
• Ocean, comic by Warren Ellis: discusses the possibility of an ancient proto-human culture originating on Phaeton.
• "The Four-And-A-Halfth Planet" by Sam Hughes describes a planet, Tjörd, that formed from the current asteroid belt while the Earth is destroyed and becomes a new asteroid belt in an alternate timeline.
• Exiles #4 : When the super hero group known as Exiles travel to a parallel dimension, they find out there is no asteroid belt, but a planet called Hera, which humans have not terraformed yet, although they have already terraformed Venus and Mars.
• Brian Lumley's story collection Caller of the Black, which contains many contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos, references Thyoph, a planet originally orbiting between Mars and Jupiter that was destroyed by an aspect of Azathoth.
• The ' roleplaying game names the former planet Turog, governed by a planetary incarna named Rorg the Hunter.
• In Frank Chadwick's ' RPG Steampunk system, Vulcan is the ancient home to the Vulcan race, and was positioned between Mars and Jupiter. Its destruction created the asteroid belt.
• In L. Neil Smith's The Venus Belt, an alternate history space-faring Libertarian society deliberately blows up the planet Venus, with the reasoning that due to its extreme heat the intact planet is completely useless to humans while if Venus is broken up into a new asteroid belt it could open up great mineral wealth.
• Keith Laumer's Worlds of the Imperium features, among a great variety of alternative history timelines. several in which Earth was broken up and its fragments scattered to make an asteroid belt.
• The protagonist of Poul Anderson's The Corridors of Time, who becomes involved in the war of two mutually-antagonistic factions from the far future, finds that an earlier phase of the war between them caused the planet Mars to break up into an asteroid belt. This cataclysm forced the two contending parties to adopt more subtle methods of warfare, mainly involving time travel.

  Trans-Neptunian planets

Literature

• In the Year 2889 short story by Jules Verne: Olympus is a massive planet beyond Neptune. It has a mean distance of 11,400,799,642 miles from the Sun, and orbits the Sun in 1311 years, 294 days, 12 hours, 43 minutes, and 9 seconds.
• A Journey in Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor IV has an icy trans-Nepunian planet named Cassandra that houses the souls of unworthy Earthlings.
• Their Destiny by Donald W. Horner: Astronauts travelling to Alpha Centauri pass a planet beyond Neptune as they leave the Solar System.
• The Whisperer in Darkness, short story by H. P. Lovecraft, and other stories of the Cthulhu mythos by various writers: Lovecraft identifies Yuggoth with Pluto, but other writers in the mythos claim that it is actually an enormous, trans-Neptunian world that orbits perpendicularly to the ecliptic of the Solar System, accompanied by three moons: Nithon, Thog and Thok. Italian astronomer Albino Carbognani has suggested that any real-life planet discovered beyond Pluto might be named Yuggoth.
• Rescue Party, a short story by Arthur C. Clarke. A reference is made to a starship "passing the orbit of Persephone"; from context, it is clearly a trans-Neptunian planet, and not the asteroid 399 Persephone. Earthlight and Rendezvous with Rama, also by Clarke, again make reference to Persephone.
• The Puppet Masters, novel by Robert A. Heinlein: The next planet after Pluto is called Kalki.
• A Life for the Stars by James Blish has a trans-Plutonian planet called Proserpina.
• Known Space books by Larry Niven: Persephone is a small gas giant with a single moon, Kobold. In The Borderland of Sol, which takes place ca. 2640, Pluto is dismissed as an escaped moon of Neptune, while the solar system's outer planets are listed as Neptune, Persephone, Caïna, Antenora, and Ptolemea, after the rounds of Cocytus in Dante's Inferno, with Judecca reserved for the next discovery.
• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, children's story by Roald Dahl: The Vermicious knids are said to be from Vermes, a planet 18,427,000,000 miles from Earth.
• The Tenth Planet, a novel set upon the rocky planet Minerva, beyond the orbit of Pluto. Minervans, human colonists who escaped ecological disaster on Earth and Mars, live in underground cities; above ground, the planet is so cold as to have lakes of liquid helium.
• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. The first part of the novel is set on a trans-Plutonian planet called Charon.
• Schrödinger's Cat trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson. The tenth planet is named Mickey and the eleventh Goofy.
• Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams. The tenth planet is officially called Persephone, but nicknamed Rupert, and is inhabited by the crew of a spaceship who have forgotten almost everything about their mission, except that they are supposed to be "monitoring" something.
• The Tenth Planet trilogy by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch: A tenth planet, roughly twice the size of the Moon, circles the Sun and its alien inhabitants periodically harvest Earth's resources. The periodicity of these raids is a consequence of the tenth planet's highly elliptical 2,006-year orbit, which closely approaches Earth only on two occasions near the tenth planet's perihelion. The tenth planet, known as Malmur to its inhabitants, is in fact a captured rogue planet, ejected from its original solar system.
• Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson There are several outer gas giants named, some of which are described as having been converted into energy for time travel. The tenth planet is named Hades.
• Take Back the Sky, the third book of the War Dogs trilogy reveals that numerous trans-Neptunian planets exist in the distant outer reaches of the Solar System. The homeworld of the alien Antags is one such planet. Called the Sun-Planet, it is an artificial world consisting of a thin solid surface wrapped around a low-density gaseous interior, five times the mass of Jupiter and nearly the diameter of the Sun. The Sun-Planet is kept at a habitable temperature by artificial fusion at its core.

  Film, TV, and radio

• The Tenth Planet, radio play broadcast Sept. 7, 1952 on Hollywood Star Playhouse. It starred Joseph Cotten, Hans Conreid, and Joan Banks Lovejoy. Cotten is kidnapped by aliens inhabiting a planet beyond Pluto.
• In the 1975 TV series Star Maidens, the planet ruled by women is known as Medusa. Described by one of the Medusans as being "on the outer limits of your solar system", the opening titles of the premiere episode indicates that a comet pulled Medusa out of orbit around Proxima Centauri—forcing its people underground—and it eventually slipped into orbit around the Earth's Sun. No longer in the heat of Proxima Centauri, Medusa is small, rocky and cold, though the Medusans have the technology to conduct industrial operations on the surface.
• Star Trek Maps, a 1970s publication by Bantam Books, indicates that the Star Trek universe includes a tenth planet in the Solar System called Persephone that orbits at a great distance from the Sun. This statement is not supported by any Star Trek film or TV episode, and a later, similar work, Star Trek Star Charts by Pocket Books, makes no mention of this world.
• ALF : In one episode, ALF reveals to Brian that two planets exist beyond Pluto. When Willie sarcastically asks if they are named "Mickey" and "Donald," ALF matter-of-factly tells him no; they are named "Dave" and "Alvin." Later Willie explains that "Dave" could be Chiron, a minor planet once labeled the "tenth planet" by the press.
• K-PAX : An alien character played by Kevin Spacey tells the character played by Jeff Bridges that there are ten planets in Bridges's Solar System.
• The cartoon Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century features astronauts Daffy Duck and Porky Pig looking for "Planet X", and then having to battle Marvin the Martian for it.

  Animation

• In the anime series The Vision of Escaflowne, there exists an invisible third member of the Earth-Moon system, called Gaea, on which the majority of the story takes place. The Earth, which is visible in the Gaean sky along with the Moon, is referred to as the "Mystic Moon".
• In the anime series Space Battleship Yamato there are eleven planets in the Solar System. In the English dub, the first season names the tenth planet Minerva, and the second season names the eleventh planet Brumus.
• In the Dragon Ball series, there's a tenth Planet or a brown dwarf called the Makyo Star. Every 12,000 years, it passes close to Earth which powers all the Makyo demons inhabiting Earth.
• In the Sailor Moon series, there exists a tenth Planet called Nemesis which is controlled by the villains of the Black Moon Clan. The planet is said to be radiating negative energy and can disappear from sight, only trackable via X-rays.
• In the animated television series Exosquad, the Solar System contains an invisible tenth planet composed of dark matter. It was discovered by the Pirate Clans who named it Chaos and later offered it as safe haven to the Exofleet.
• In the Mutant Chronicles universe, the 10th Planet, Nero, is the home of portals used by The Dark Legion to gain access into our galaxy through which they plan to enslave or destroy mankind. The planet is named after the Imperial Cardinal who had prophetic visions of the black planet, visions which also warned him of death.
• In the animated series The Fairly OddParents, the character Mark Chang is from the planet Yugopotamia which is stated in the episode "Totally Spaced Out" to be "one million, one million" miles away from Earth.

  Other

• Camelot 3000, comic book: Scientists discover a tenth planet in 3000 AD. It is later revealed to be the homeworld whence the aliens attack Earth. Eventually King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table are teleported there with the help of the Lady of the Lake.
• 2001 Nights, manga by Yukinobu Hoshino, Night 7, "Lucifer Rising": A tenth planet dubbed Lucifer and its three moons Cassius, Brutus, and Judas are discovered. The expedition to Lucifer becomes a perilous and tragic one when it is discovered that Lucifer is composed of antimatter.
• ', video game: Planet X is said to initially exist between Neptune and Pluto and causes the two planets to switch positions in the solar system while Planet X itself becomes the literal tenth planet in the system and is shown to be artificial, though mountains and jungles exist on it.
• Galaxy 5000, videogame: Planet X the last stage, after finishing Pluto, which suggests it to be the next planet in the series.
• ', computer game: A tenth planet called Dark Planet is not discovered for some time because it was obscured by the Kuiper belt.
• , video game: At some point before the 3300's, a ninth planet named Persephone was charted in the Solar System, and can be traveled to and explored. The planet is depicted as an airless ice planet with active geysers; it has a semi-major axis of 700 AU, a radius of 14,427 km, a gravity of 1.95G, a surface temperature of 20K, a mass 9.9997 times the mass of the Earth, and an orbital period of 15,000 years.

  Elsewhere in the Solar System

• Monster Zero , the 6th Godzilla film: Aliens from Planet X try to conquer the Earth using Godzilla, Rodan, and King Ghidorah to take its water supply because water is scarce on their planet.
• The Lost Planet describes journeys to "Hesikos", a fictional asteroid with highly eccentric orbit whose humanoid inhabitants renounced nuclear power after a meltdown, but have meanwhile developed broadcast telepathy. A happy ending ensues when Earthmen provide safe nuclear technology in return for thought projections from Hesikos to reduce fear and aggression here.
• Eros appeared in a Golden Age Wonder Woman story. It is ruled by women who consider prison terms a reward and are more scientifically advanced than Earth. It can be reached through astral projection while sleeping. Wonder Woman is sent there by Queen Desira to fight a rogue female scientist who is trying to help men take over the planet.
• Twin Earth: a hypothetical duplicate of the Earth and everything on it, as a thought experiment by philosopher Saul Kripke about names: the fact that everything you could say about someone or something on the Earth would be equally true of its counterpart on Twin Earth shows that names can't merely be shorthand for descriptions, as they may not uniquely identify a person/object.
• The short story "The Mysterious Finding" by Vladimir Obruchev features the discovery of an artificial meteorite containing the last message of a race living on a planet similar to Phaeton, though it used to be located between Earth and Mars. By the time the log is written, it is months away from being destroyed by a critical destabilization caused by nuclear bombardment of an extinct volcano.

  Rogue planets

• When Worlds Collide, novel by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer: Extrasolar planets Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta enter the Solar System: Bronson Alpha destroys the Earth, Bronson Beta assumes its orbit.
• Flash Gordon, comic by Alex Raymond: Rogue planet Mongo threatens to collide with Earth.
• Super-Neutron short story by Isaac Asimov, where it is claimed that a rogue planet could cause the Sun to explode.
• The Man from Planet X is an early space-alien film. In the film, the orbit of the hitherto unknown extrasolar Planet X brings it close to Earth.
• Fifth Planet, sci-fi novel by Fred Hoyle and his son Geoffrey Hoyle: Another star is due to pass close to the Sun, close enough for conventional spacecraft to reach it. The first planets observed are four gas-giants, but then an inner 'Fifth Planet' is found. It shows signs of life, and rival Russian and US expeditions are launched to visit it.
• The Tenth Planet, serial of the Doctor Who TV series: An extrasolar planet, Mondas, enters the Solar System beyond Pluto, making it temporarily the tenth planet. It originated in the Solar System with an orbit near that of Counter-Earth before the native Cybermen powered it with an engine and moved it out of the Solar System.
• Breakaway |Breakaway, the first episode of the mid-1970s sci-fi series , involved an exploration of a rogue planet named Meta.
• Thundarr the Barbarian, takes place on a post-apocalyptic Earth. The apocalypse takes the form of a "runaway planet" which passes between the Earth and moon, "unleashing cosmic destruction" and literally cracking the Moon in half. The broken Moon was often seen in the sky throughout various episodes.
• Transformers toys and spinoffs: Cybertron is a robot-inhabited rogue planet that comes close to Earth. In the Generation One cartoon timeline, this only occurs after the events of the three part episode The Ultimate Doom, in which Cybertron is brought into Earth's solar system by the use of a space bridge big enough to transport the entire planet. Afterwards, it is shown to exist somewhere reasonably close to Earth's Solar System after it is pushed out of Earth's orbit. Characters such as Starscream, Omega Supreme, and Astrotrain are later shown to be able to travel from Earth to Cybertron and back with relative ease depending on the plot of the story. Later incarnations of Cybertron are either rogue planets or else have a method of near instant transportation to and from Earth.
• Sunstorm, an alien race from the star system of Altair sends a rogue Jovian planet into the Sun, setting the stage for a solar storm intended to wipe out humanity in the year 2042.
• Melancholia, a planet emerges from behind the Sun and approaches Earth, initially passing by, before coming back on a collision course. It was written and directed by Lars von Trier.